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security operations. This protocol would formalise the transition of command
and would include but not necessarily be limited to:
a)
The names of the commander or commanders from and to
whom responsibility is transferred as well as the names of the
units involved;
b)
The time of the transition;
c)
An accounting for all detainees;
d)
A preliminary accounting for the dead that would include the
number of persons killed, the places where they were killed
and the circumstances under which they met their deaths.
e)
These matters should be reduced to writing at the earliest
opportunity.
5.
STRENGTHEN OVERSIGHT OF THE JCF
15.35.
The structures that are responsible for the oversight of the police
include the INDECOM, the PCOA and the Police Service Commission (PSC). These
structures are responsible for different aspects of the oversight of the JCF.
We
recommend
that they be strengthened in terms of their capacities to fulfill their
functions effectively.
6.
OVERSIGHT OF THE JDF’s INVOLVEMENT IN POLICING
OPERATIONS
15.36.
If there is a structural gap in the system of oversight, it is related
to the JDF. Armies are treated differently from police forces. They are
accountable in different ways. However, to the extent that the JDF has become
routinely involved in policing and is required to play a major role in internal
security operations, it is our view that this aspect of their work, that is, their
policing work, should be subjected to a greater measure of external civilian
oversight. In this report we limit ourselves to proposing that the principle be