Jordan to host preparatory meeting of FIEB

AMMAN — The association of European and Mediterranean gendarmeries and police forces with military status (FIEP) will change its name to the International Organisation for Gendarmeries and Police Forces upon a Jordanian request.

Jordan will host a preparatory meeting of the FIEB on Friday during which Hussein Hawatmeh, director general of the Gendarmerie Department, will hand over the presidency of the association to the commander of the Turkish gendarmerie forces, according to a source from the Gendarmerie Department.

During its preparatory meeting in Amman in August, FIEP announced that it has accepted the membership of the Palestinian National Security Forces, the source said.

FIEP is an association of national gendarmeries or affiliated corps, encompassing the European and Mediterranean gendarmeries and police forces with military status, according to its website.

The goal of FIEP — which started with the corps of France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal —  is to broaden and strengthen the mutual relationships, to promote an innovative and active reflection on the forms of police co-operation, and to value its model of organisation and structures abroad.  FIEP wants to be recognised by the European authorities as a forum and a structure of separate police co-operation, capable of leading concrete actions, the website said.