The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A member of the State of Cambodia's (SOC) military police covers a fellow member with a M-16 rifle while a vehicle search is conducted as part of a checkpoint exercise at the Military Training Centre situated at a former refugee reception camp on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. To ensure safety, the soldier has removed the magazine from his rifle. To his right in the white shirt is Heng Bean, the course interpreter, behind him is the course instructor and there are a number of students watching the exercise in the background. The 18 day courses were designed to give common training to the military police of Cambodia's newly combined armed forces, with thirty lessons in arrest procedure, police restraint techniques, crowd control, crime scene protection, humanitarian considerations, report writing and instructional techniques provided by an Australian, French, Malaysian and Canadian team of ten, all members of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC). Students were chosen to become future instructors at the School and over 2000 were processed.
On a street outside Cambodia's National Museum in Phnom Penh, a cyclo (also known as a trishaw) driver dozes in the heat whilst awaiting business as a group of foreigners (possibly non government agen
An unidentified Australian soldier provides advice on arrest techniques to a member of the State of Cambodia's (SOC) military police during a checkpoint exercise while another pair of students practic
A member of the State of Cambodia's (SOC) military police covers a 'suspect' while other members of his class watch the checkpoint exercise at the Military Training Centre situated at a former refugee
Members of the State of Cambodia's (SOC) military police practice arrest techniques as part of a checkpoint exercise at the Military Training Centre situated at a former refugee reception camp on the
An unidentified Australian instructor (far right) supervises a checkpoint or roadblock exercise with members of the State of Cambodia's (SOC) military police at the Military Training Centre situated a
A member of the State of Cambodia's (SOC) military police covers a 'suspect' who is sitting on the ground with a M-16 rifle while others members conduct a search of a UN vehicle as part of a checkpoin
A member of the State of Cambodia's (SOC) military police covers a pair of 'suspects' with a M-16 rifle while other members of his class, who are sitting on the ground near a UN motorcycle, watch the
