José Hugo Granadino Mejía
Chief, Professional Training Unit, National Police of El Salvador
Focus: Accountable Policing
Topics: Integration and Amalgamation, Training
Keywords: community policing, demilitarization, donor relations, gangs, incentive systems, integration and amalgamation, internal management, promotion systems, rank restructuring, recruitment, reform sequencing, training curriculum, UN policies, vetting
Interviewer(s): Flor Hunt
Country of Reform: El Salvador
Location: El Salvador
Date: Thu Jul 3 2008
Abstract
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At the time of this interview, José Hugo Granadino Mejía was chief of the professional training unit of the National Police of El Salvador. A lawyer and notary, he in 1993 became one of the first professors at the National Academy of Public Security (Academia Nacional de Seguridad Pública), an institution separate from the National Police. He also served as director of study and later as director general of the academy, and he worked as a professor of law at the Universidad de El Salvador for 25 years and at the Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador.
