NEWS - Myanmar Police Urged to Imp

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Myanmar Police Urged to Implement Three Main Tasks

            Xinhua
            20-JUN-98

            YANGON (June 21) XINHUA - Myanmar
            leader Lieutenant-General Khin Nyunt has
            urged the country's police force to
            successfully implement three main tasks
            -- community peace and tranquillity,
            prevalence of law and order and narcotic
            drugs control. 

            At a meeting of the Committee for Reform
            of Myanmar Police Force (MPF)
            Management System here Saturday, Khin
            Nyunt, first secretary of the State Peace
            and Development Council (SPDC), said
            reform of the management system of the
            Myanmar Police Force in form and
            essence must be accelerated, the official
            newspaper The New Light of Myanmar
            reported Sunday. 

            He asked all police personnel to be
            prepared for the prevention of crimes in
            the new developed society and reorganize
            and train the police units to be able to
            suppress subversives and hooligans. 

            He told them to be determined to
            safeguard the public, try to be reliable and
            unbiased, avoid red tape and uphold their
            code of conduct. 

            He quoted Senior-General Than Shwe,
            chairman of the SPDC, as saying the MPF
            is a trained armed organization in addition
            to the country's regular armed forces to be
            able to safeguard the nation in emergency
            cases. 

            The committee for the reform was formed
            in January 1994 and rules, procedures
            and laws were adopted for scrutinizing the
            existing management, surveillance and
            prosecution and training systems,
            deterring abuse of power, removing
            corrupt practices and carrying out reforms
            keeping abreast of the times.