The U.S. State Dept. is planning to deploy a law enforcement training & development advisor to Bolivia, where the still-unnamed private contractor annually will train about 1,500 officers and agents of the Government of Bolivia (GOB). The contractor will serve as an "expert advisor" to the director of the Narcotics Affairs Section (NAS) as well as to the Bolivian National Police (BNP) and the national counternarcotics police, known as Fuerza Especial de Lucha Contra el Narcotrafico, or FELCN. The advisor will be tasked with providing technical assistance to internal affairs investigators at BNP/FELCN as well implementing a management reform initiative.
The overarching goal behind the deployment of this advisor is to help the GOB “respond to the threat of drug trafficking and other forms of transnational crime, including trafficking in persons,” according to a personnel services contracting-notice posted April 21 to the
FedBizOpps database.
The bolstering of anticorruption and internal police-reform are key elements of this position. In order to accomplish these tasks, the contractor will assist the BNP and FELCN commanders in training and improving internal investigative units such as Direccion Nacional de Responsabilidad Profesional, or DNRP, “and related Tribunals that conduct internal investigations and promote greater integrity in police activity.”
Additionally, the job involves oversight of four separate NAS projects: the Law Enforcement Development (LEDP) project; the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) project; the Secure Borders project; and, the counternarcotics training school (GARRAS) project. The advisor will independently evaluate these and other programs in coordination with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the U.S. Military Group.
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