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Ambassador tours new police facilities in Armenia

Department of State and NFL leaders discuss diversity and inclusion

INL donates PPE to Ecuador

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Julie Chung (center), from the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, visits with locals in a Sembremos Seguridad community during a trip to Desamparados, San José. Photo by Eladio Ramirez

INL transforms the face of security in Costa Rica

Staff Sergeant Christopher Liu (far left), who serves as a civil-military support element medical sergeant for Embassy Dhaka’s U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Augmentation Team, demonstrates the proper application of a tourniquet during the Medical First Responder Seminar, Jan. 5, 2020. Photo by Mary Rosary Buchanan

First responder training shows positive results in Bangladesh

Center in white shirt: Deputy Assistant Secretary Cynthia Kierscht meets with youth ambassadors and leaders at the first-ever Caribbean Youth Forum on Drug Use Prevention in Barbados, Oct. 23. Photo courtesy of Embassy Bridgetown

Caribbean Youth Forum tackles drug abuse

Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) Assistant Secretary Kirsten D. Madison presents a pin to a Kyiv Patrol Police Academy graduate during a visit to Ukraine last October. Through a partnership with Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, INL supported the overhaul and rollout of the more than 16,000-member Patrol Police nationwide, which replaced the corrupt and inefficient traffic police with a protect-and-serve force. Public approval for the new Patrol Police units reached an unprecedented 70 percent shortly after the launch. This major police reform also improved public perception of the police force from less than 1 percent of the public fully trusting the police in 2013 to nearly 45 percent today.

INL supports major police reform in Ukraine