The embassy of the Islamic Republic of afghanistan in washington. My colleague and director will be moderating the conversation but its my great pleasure and honor to ask the ambassador to provide welcoming remarks. Your excellency. Thank you. Good morning, good afternoon or good evening depending on where you are right now in joining us for the session. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the second event of the embassy of afghanistan. We are glad to be hosting the event on lebanons agreement and partnership with the Atlantic Council a wonderful partner of the embassy in washington. I want to offer a warm thank you to the Atlantic Council further help in organizing this important discussion and all the great work they are continuously doing. Furthermore i would like to express my gratitude for taking the time to share their knowledge and insight with us today. Ambassador i thank you and not just for joining us today that for all the great work that youve done in afghanistan over the y
Afternoon or good evening, depending on wherever you are sitting right now and joining us for this session. May peace be upon you. It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the second event of the embassy of afghanistans listen and peace series. We are glad to be hosting this event on lebanons agreement and partnership with the Atlantic Council. A wonderful partner of the embassy in washington, i want to offer a very warm thank you to the Atlantic Council for their help in organizing this very important discussion. And all the great work that they are continuously doing. Furthermore, i would like to express my gratitude to doctor patricia, and doctor daniel. For taking this time to share their knowledge and insight with us today. , and busted or i think you not just for joining us today but for all of the great work you have done in afghanistan over the years. Its an honor to have you with us today, thank you for moderating and guiding us through this conversation. For those of you who
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For being here. It seems like a week or two when you think back on how compresed it has been. But a lot of good work came from it. I want to thank those that testified today and those that testified before you, submitted comments and participated in the audience. It has been helpful in us framing what will be the final recommendations we present to the president next week. I am not going to go anything about how it will happen. Ron did a good job of that. Soon you will be introduced to the other taskforce members. I am chuck ramsey and i am a cochair along with Lori Robinson and i think we have made a good team over the past few months. I am currently the police chief in philadelphia. Seven years i have served in that capacity. Prior to that where was the police chief in washington for almost nine. I started in chicago in 1968. I have been around for a while and seen a lot of changing in policing over the years. Very dynamic profession and this is a period of time when we have challeng
Shooting of missouri teenager michael brown. Members are examining ways to improve relationships between Law Enforcement and the communities they serve. They are expected to give their recommendations to president obama the summer. This is to an half hours. Were going to get started. If you have a cell phone please turn it off for putting on to vibrate. Good morning welcome to the president s task force on 21st Century Policing. Today we have a distinguished and final panel all bills were outstanding but we save the best for last there will be the to the cochairs to explain the purpose of the panel and the thought process while we will close it out this way. And as you know, december 1st 2014 president obama announced his intent to create a president s task force with 21st Century Policing to deal with the issue of trust between police and many communities in the task force will be led by two distinguished cochairs was also a former assistant attorney general and to her left charros ra