Retired cops hired for Kosovo

Wanted: Qualified ex-police officers for duty in an international
monitoring force in Kosovo.

A spokesman for DynCorp, the private
company recruiting the officers, told WorldNetDaily that Kosovo
"currently has no police force," and that "Kosovars are not ready (to
police themselves) yet, and there will be no Serb paramilitary or police
forces left there" after final withdrawal as part of the NATO peace
settlement.

The spokesman told WorldNetDaily that the United Nations is leading
the effort, although the State Department is managing U.S. involvement
in the program.

DynCorp is responsible for screening applicants, answering questions,
and hiring qualified personnel.

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The unnamed spokesman also said eventually "there will be new police
academies built" to train Kosovars to police themselves, but in the
meantime the United Nations-led program "will probably be a multi-year
plan."

"You have to remember, we're dealing with the State Department," he
said, "so you never know how long this will last." However, he noted
that successful hires "will have to sign a one year contract" in order
to be eligible for deployment.

"These hires will be the police force" in Kosovo, he said,
"and will be performing all of the normal functions and duties of a
police officer." The International Police Monitoring Force, as is it
known, will likely be responsible to the U.N., although individual
officers will immediately answer to "the State Department in the U.S.,"
or a similar ministry or department in an officer's country of origin.
Fire and emergency medical services will "most probably" be handled by
the military, he said, though Kosovo "has none of those services
either."

He told WorldNetDaily that officers will be hired from several
nations -- mostly western countries -- and that "about 350 to 750 of the
officers will come from the United States."

Qualifications for the international force involve at least eight
years experience as a civilian law officer, currently active or retired
within the past three years, as well as good health and language
skills. Base pay for the force will be about $97,000 per year, not
including living expenses and bonuses.