But recruiting new officers would be one of the toughest jobs for Davies. To find recruits, Davies would travel throughout 13 districts, braving torrential rains, to interview prospective recruits, many who desperately wanted to join. The locals all wanted a chance to be in the college, but when Davies firmly told them everyone couldn't be interviewed and to stop making threats, they continued surrounding the peacekeepers. Every village was like this. While there were always people willing to become police officers, the difficulty was finding those who didn't resent the officials.
Recruits first go through medical checks and testing.
After being cleared, the recruits attend police college for three months. And after graduating, recruits spend a few months working with a UN officer. He recalled a time when dozens of locals piled into and onto a van. They can't be overloading the vans. We have to teach them to put a reasonable number of people in the vans.