Mock Canberra village teaches Afghan survival skills
Monday, May 10, 2010
Australian police sent to Afghanistan have been trained in a mock village on the outskirts of Canberra.
The contingent bring the number of AFP officers in Afghanistan to 28.
Assistant AFP Commissioner Peter Drennan has told a forum at the Canberra University that police have had to learn skills like bartering to survive in a foreign culture.
"We have a purpose-built village which is part of our international deployment group at Majura," he said.
"It's a replica of an indigenous village in a non-descript country, and they actually spend time there in as real as type circumstances as possible to replicate conditions when they arrive."
