Photo Fresh News
Crowd-control unit releases video footage of live-fire shooting exercise
Tue, 8 August 2017
A crowd-control unit of the capital’s police force yesterday released footage of a live-fire practice exercise intended to bolster its ability to “protect the legitimate government”, a display that comes less than a year before a hotly anticipated national election and follows months of government threats directed at would-be protesters.

In a demonstration analysts described as worrying, and which an opposition lawmaker called threatening, officers from the Phnom Penh Municipal Police’s Intervention Unit conducted firing drills at a police base in Por Sen Chey, which were captured in photos and a video published by government-aligned outlet Fresh News.

In the clip, half a dozen policemen begin by firing AK-47s in the prone position at targets some 100 metres away, before walking downrange in formation with their sights trained and dropping to one knee to fire again.

According to Fresh News, Prom Channa, deputy chief of the Municipal Police’s general staff and head of discipline and order, said the exercise, led by the capital’s top cop General Choun Sovann, involved 150 men who were drilled to shoot while in the prone position, standing and moving. The training, he said, was to “strengthen capabilities”, and was necessary for “successful operations”.

However, observers were left aghast at such tactics being taught to a unit primarily tasked with dealing with unarmed crowds. “It’s unbelievable to see images of intervention police from Phnom Penh being trained to ‘control crowds’ using live ammunition,” Licadho’s deputy director of advocacy, Naly Pilorge, said in a message...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/c ... g-exercise

Normal for them to train, but a bit of a faux pas (perhaps intentional) to release the video at such a time.

has CEO got access to the video?

AndyKK wrote: ↑Tue Aug 08, 2017 10:02 pm has CEO got access to the video?

It seems to be no longer available.

So what are the chances of things getting spicy with this election next year?