"This International Crisis Group report, examines the worsening violence in a key country, whose police were overlooked in early stages of the international intervention in favour of building the army. Today they too often are a source of fear, rather than community protection. Instead of increasing coercive power and force size with poorly trained recruits, the government and its partners need to focus on increased accountability, ethnic representation and professionalism. Freeing the force from politics and building institutional integrity is vital."