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special vow of secrecy because the security of the state might be at stake in their work . But that is totally different from a Secret Police , who apparently are not accountable to anyone or maybe only to the Prime Minister ( Erdohan ) or the president ( Putin ). People in pre-detention ( in a police station ) are not convicted or found to be guilty yet . Is torture to get a confession a justice system that you want ? If you want the police to behave properly towards people in predetention centers , that also needs training . and maybe a replacement of the chief of Police .
In a democracy the police has legitimate means for crowd control . But that means no tear gas and certainly no bullets to disperse a crowd where people are just voicing criticism as we now see in Turkey or even worse in Russia . Are you willing to provide the necessary budget for continued training programs where the police are being trained how to minimize their legitimate use of force . And even then it can go wrong as I have seen in my country in Haaren . If there is still time I will explain how a facebook message about a birthday party went totally wrong .
The answer why , when something went wrong is always a problem and this problem does appear everywhere . But then the only solution is a proper debate and the firm will to learn to do better .