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Police to learn less aggressive methods

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    Ivorian policemen, reputed for their tendency to draw their side arms, will have to learn new, less aggressive policing methods to better protect the public, Security Minister Marcel Kone announced on Friday.

    “Goodbye to the whistle, goodbye to the baton, goodbye to the (tear gas) grenade, and far less drawing of weapons,” he said at a news conference. The police are to be retrained by French instructors.

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