Khatia Dekanoidze knows about police reform. As the former chief of the National Police of Ukraine, she continues to work on police reform efforts in Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova. She spoke with The World’s host Marco Werman to talk about what US police officers can do now to reform.
There are plenty of kinds of workers mobilizing to fight Ebola in West Africa, not just doctors and nurses. They include “contact tracers,” who monitor people and try to get them to respect quarantines. They say they’re still doing a vital job without the tools they need.
The issue of quarantine is not only a hot-button topic in the US: Officials in Ebola-ravaged Liberia, for instance, have grappled with the issue for months. And that is why some are now looking to Liberia to draw upon lessons learned from an evolved quarantine policy.
A survey in the United Kingdom recently found that a majority of the nation’s police officers are overweight. In response, a proposal has been floated to require fitness testing of all officers. But some police say this is unnecessarily broad.