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CONFIDENTIAL

Visit to South Vietnam by L.P.R. Browning

APPENDIX F

4th to 7th November, 1967

I arrived in Saigon on the evening of 4 November.

As I was

scheduled to leave for Manila on 7 November this only allowed me one and

a half working days.

2. During my visit I met and had discussions with the following police

officers:-

General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, Director General, National Police Colonel Tran Van Phan, Assistant Director General, Manpower

and Training

Colonel Fham Huysanh, Officer Commanding Police Field Force

3. General Loan expressed a keen interest in the training which was available in Malaysia and made suggestions on how this could be improved to suit his particular requirements. This mainly referred to the methods to be used in cordoning and searching hamlets, villages and

individual houses.

40 Training in Malaysia in 1968 will follow the pattern of previous

years and will comprise courses in:--

Jungle Warfare

Intelligence (Special Branch)

Riot Control

Police Administration

If all courses are accepted a total of some 450 Police Officers will

undergo training in Malaysia.

5. I met the Chief of the American Police Training Mission and the nine British ex-Colonial Police Officers working for the Public Safety Division in Saigon. I was told by Mr. John Manopoli the Chief of Public Safety that the British Officers were making a most valuable contribution to the

training effort in South Vietnam.

6. I called on Mr. J. de Silva, the Malaysian Charge d'Affaires who is a keen supporter of the Police Training Programme, I also had brief

discussions with H.E. the British Ambassador and Counsellor in the British

Embassy.

7. Throughout my visit I was accompanied by Mr. W. Ford, the senior British Police Adviser, and I am most grateful to him for the arrange- ments that he made and for his hospitality.

8. The strength of the South Vietnam National Police is at present some 70,000 officers and other ranks, Apparently the intention is to increase this number to 84,000 by mid-1969.

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