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### Viewing cable 07SANJOSE997, COSTA RICAN POLICE PROFESSIONALIZATION PROGRAM

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07SANJOSE997 | 2007-05-25 20:08 | 2011-03-07 18:06 | UNCLASSIFIED | Embassy San Jose

Appears in these articles:
http://www.nacion.com/2011-03-06/Investigacion/NotasDestacadas/Investigacion2702320.aspx
http://www.nacion.com/2011-03-06/Investigacion/NotasSecundarias/Investigacion2702325.aspx
http://www.nacion.com/2011-03-06/Investigacion/NotaPrincipal/Investigacion2702324.aspx
http://www.nacion.com/2011-03-06/Investigacion/NotasSecundarias/Investigacion2702326.aspx
http://www.nacion.com/2011-03-06/Investigacion/NotasSecundarias/Investigacion2702327.aspx

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    DE RUEHSJ #0997/01 1452045
    ZNR UUUUU ZZH
    P 252045Z MAY 07
    FM AMEMBASSY SAN JOSE
    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8108
    INFO RUEHZA/WHA CENTRAL AMERICAN COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
    RUEHZP/AMEMBASSY PANAMA PRIORITY 3618

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    UNCLAS SAN JOSE 000997

    SIPDIS

    SIPDIS

    DEPATMENT FOR WHA/CEN AND INL/LP

    E.O. 12958: N/A
    TAGS: SNAR KCRM PGOV PREL PINR CS
    SUBJECT: COSTA RICAN POLICE PROFESSIONALIZATION PROGRAM

    REF: PANAMA 492

    ¶1. SUMMARY:  Taking advantage of technical assistance from
    NAS Panama, Post has launched a multi-year program to
    professionalize Costa Rica's national police force.  With
    crime rates rising rapidly and over 700,000 Amcits visiting
    each year, the program is a key part of our Mission Strategic
    Plan and responds to a direct request for assistance from the
    Arias Administration.  The goal of the program is ultimately
    to transform Costa Rica's Fuerza Publica from a traditional,
    reactive police force into a proactive, community-oriented
    police force that is truly preventative.  Implementation will
    require a complete change of philosophy within the Fureza
    Publica and making effective use of information tools like
    COMPSTAT.  Costa Rica will also have to dedicate substantial
    financial and human resources to the project.  With top-level
    buy-in and a 35% increase in the Ministry of Public
    Security's 2007 budget, plus progress on campaign promises to
    hire 4,000 new police officers over the Arias
    administration's four years in power, the program is off to a
    good start.  END SUMMARY.

    The Program
    -----------
    ¶2. The first part of the program targets top police managers
    through a series of seminars on executive leadership
    (SEMAGEL).  The first SEMAGEL was held in San Jose on April
    25-26 at the Ministry of Public Security.  The top official
    for each police district (all 10 Comissarios) and nearly 20
    key operational and administrative staff attended the
    seminar.  Since the program entails radical change, debate
    was lively from the outset with obviously different levels of
    buy-in among the Comissarios.  Over the course of the
    seminar, NAS Panama's Police Advisor Don Gosselin and the
    head of Panama's Metropolitan Police Unit Rigoberto
    Feuillebois addressed questions, challenges, and reservations
    based on their direct personal experience.  While it is too
    soon to declare all the seminar participants completely on
    board, they do have a fuller understanding of what the
    changes mean and how they will be implemented.  The
    philosophies behind community policing were discussed at
    length.  Participants were taught a self-evaluation tool
    (called EARE in Spanish) in which success is measured in
    terms of problems solved at the community level and with
    community participation.

    ¶3.  Political leadership at the Ministry of Public Security
    is fully committed to the program.  At the end of the
    seminar, Vice Minister Gutierrez impressed the participants
    with his knowledge of the program and made clear to all that
    a full transition to community policing is a key part of the
    Ministry's overall policy.  The Vice Minister acknowledged
    that implementation will require a complete revision of
    philosophy and doctrine within the Fuerza Publica.  Gutierrez
    urged the Comissarios to faithfully implement the transition,
    and warned that he will be following their progress closely.

    COMPSTAT
    --------
    ¶4.  The second part of the program is to improve management
    tools and technology.  Gosselin and Feuillebois introduced
    COMPSTAT as a management tool to assist senior managers in
    holding subordinates accountable for results.  COMPSTAT is a
    data-analysis tool that generates digital maps which display
    exactly where and when crimes occur so that trends can be
    identified and police resources applied effectively.  The
    group participated in a mock COMPSTAT meeting to understand
    how the process works from the supervisory and mid-level
    management perspective.  Participants saw clearly how
    COMPSTAT can help them respond proactively to prevent crimes
    rather than merely reacting afterward.  They also saw how the
    system will quickly provide feedback to them and to their
    superiors if they fail to use the information effectively.
    COMPSTAT, or a system like it would be a highly effective
    tool in holding mid-level police managers accountable to
    their communities.

    Next Steps
    ----------
    ¶5.  The next phase of SEMAGEL is practical application and
    will begin June 18.  The first SEMAGEL seminar ended with a
    homework assignment.  Participants returned to their
    districts charged with working with their communities to
    identify an existing security problem that is solvable within
    current resources.  Officials are expected to work with
    community leaders to resolve the problem while applying the
    EARE self-evaluation tool.  Gosselin and Feuillebios will
    return to review results and to hold another mock COMPSTAT
    meeting based on the results.
    ¶6.  The final phase will require training for up to 150
    mid-level managers in order to create a "command structure"
    capable of directing and focusing the efforts of the 4,000
    new police officers Arias has promised.  Using a "train the
    trainer" model, these mid-level officers will be trained
    primarily in Costa Rica by officials we will send to various
    instructor development courses and police academies in the
    U.S.  Post began this process by sending four officials
    identified by the Ministry as "agents of change" to
    participate in a separate series of leadership seminars
    sponsored by NAS Panama and developed in conjunction with the
    Southern Police Institute at Louisville University (Reftel).
    This five-week course will build on SEMAGEL and provide
    in-depth training for the implementation of community
    policing.  Also, we will send officials to train at the
    Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in
    conjunction with training financed by NAS Panama. Finally, we
    are exploring opportunities to send instructors to train at
    the New Mexico State Police Academy as part of the new Costa
    Rica State Partnership Program with the New Mexico National
    Guard.

    COMMENT
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    ¶7.  The program is ambitious, urgently needed, and off to a
    good start.  Adequate resource levels to train the mid-level
    managers and to provide some, but not all, of the equipment
    necessary to get a COMPSTAT-like system operating will
    determine our success.  The GOCR is willing and able to meet
    us part way.  For our part, we have requested $200,000 in
    INCLE funds for 2008 and an additional $100,000 for 2009 to
    support the program and see it through to completion.  For
    Costa Rica to persuade the region that military forces are no
    longer needed to maintain domestic security, its police
    forces must be better trained, better led, more professional
    and more effective.  For a few hundred thousand dollars, we
    can give them a significant push in the right direction.
    WEITZENKORN

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