Many thanks to John Bertetto, DavidBFPO and others for the responses, both on this forum and via other means.

Although partnering is well understood after the experience of OEF and OIF the situation now is more one of partnering from afar. There is a limited footprint of Advise and Assist teams and no mentoring per se. The issue therefore is with limited access how do we make best use of the access we do have? For the police this is exacerbated by the limited expertise available, there are no Provincial Police Transition Teams as was.

The assessment is very much at the tactical level but will feed the operational level thinking. There is a requirement to identify areas of strength and weaknesses in capability (both equipment and training), but there is also a requirement to identify issues and trends to assist local authorities in their future efforts. The police now are operating very much in an Internal Security (IS) role, and the focus is on how well that they can do that role.

Looking beyond the immediate tactical requirement there is a need to at least start to consider how the police could transition from that role to a less IS focused and more policing focused role. Build for the 'now' certainly, but with a mind that this will be the foundation for the future.

In terms of Measures of Efficiency/Effectiveness/Performance I think we will be trying to gauge the latter, although advising the local authorities how to gauge the former will be a part of any planning.