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British officer to head Sierra Leone police force

    NAIROBI

    Britain will send a senior police officer to be Sierra Leone's new Inspector General of Police, a British diplomatic source in Freetown told IRIN on Friday. The source added that the Commonwealth police advisers would return to Freetown to start training the local police force. They were evacuated from Freetown in December 1998 as a result of the RUF offensive.

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