Chicago-Kent College of Law Viewbook - (Page 33) On Strengthening the Rule of Law Angelic Little-Turner ’01 Angelic Little-Turner has been a senior program officer with the Afghanistan Police and Justice Sector Reconstruction Program for the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), for several years. She is about to move to a similar position in Haiti. In my final year of law school, I was selected to participate in the federal government’s Presidential Management Fellows Program, which recruits individuals with advanced degrees to management positions. That’s what led to my position with the U.S. Department of State. In Afghanistan, the police are the key to success. You can’t have a strong community if you don’t have basic security provided by people who actually care about the community and want to develop it. The challenges are huge. Outside the major cities, resources are scarce, and even basic amenities are hard to come by. Most of the police we work with have had little access to education. There’s a lot of corruption, and insurgency and drug production are massive problems. We’re having an impact, but it takes time. We’ve trained more than 70,000 police, and they’re actually starting to get paid. We have a domestic violence unit up and running—the first ever in Afghanistan’s history. My office has programs in several countries, helping to build democratic, professional police- and justice-sector organizations that respect the rule of law. My next assignment will allow me to look at policing and other post-conflict issues from a more global perspective, which is what especially interests me. Who’s Who 32 | 33
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