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Slideshow Ultra-Orthodox yoga A dozen devout Jewish men meet weekly for yoga at a studio near Jerusalem. Slideshow Thousands of Libyan gunmen sign up for police training Tweet Share this Email Print Related News Libyan police captain abducted in Benghazi Thu, Jan 3 2013 Fear slows Libyan probe into attack on U.S. mission in Benghazi Wed, Dec 19 2012 Two police stations targeted in Libya's Benghazi Sun, Dec 16 2012 Analysis & Opinion Delhi police rightly targeted in gang rape case – Kiran Bedi Michigan excludes police and fire unions from â€œright to workâ€ Related Topics World » By Hadeel Al Shalchi and Ali Shuaib TRIPOLI | Sun Jan 6, 2013 12:42pm EST TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Almost 6,000 gunmen have begun training to be policemen under a drive to disarm militias hindering Libya's democratic transition although many others cling to street powers won in toppling Muammar Gaddafi, the new interior minister said in an interview. Ashour Shuail, a soft-spoken former professor of law, took charge of Libya's most formidable domestic policy challenge - establishing a legitimate, effective national police - late last year after his appointment by new Prime Minister Ali Zeidan. After Gaddafi's overthrow in 2011, transitional authorities set up a Supreme Security Committee (SSC) composed of militiamen who would try to curb others defying law enforcement in the belief it remained under the thumb of Gaddafi loyalists. But the SSC, funded by the Interior Ministry, wound up better armed and powerful than the official police and a number of members have been accused of kidnappings and intimidation, complicating the lawlessness plaguing the oil-producing state. In an interview with Reuters, Shuail said that close to 6,000 militiamen - roughly 10 percent of those in the SSC - had signed up to join the regular police since an admissions programme was launched at the end of last year. He said 37 police training committees under the interior ministry's authority had been set up to handle the new recruits. Shuail said he was prepared to tweak the admission rules, accepting recruits as old as 40 or 45, or those lacking a high school diploma, to expedite the SSC merger with national police and make room for everyone keen to serve. "Those looking for safety, security, legitimacy, employment, and to participate in building his nation in a civilized way will turn to the admissions committees. Loyalty is to God and country," he said. A slew of previous attempts to integrate militiamen into police forces failed, but Shuail insisted the new plan was more viable because Libyans were fed up with gun rule in the streets. "This time will be different because the street is ready. Libyans are ready for the return of a nation and for stability. We all have sons and daughters and personal and international interests, but this only (can be realised) in stability and with institutions of the nation," he said. Shuail said he was confident that more and more SSC members would opt to join police because the incentives included steady salaries and paid health care, which would help them buy homes and start families. The minister's spokesman said new applications were arriving from militiamen every day, without giving numbers. Shuail was coy on the magnitude of the matter of gunmen who still reject law enforcement, saying only that the solution lay in brainstorming ideas to overcome such recalcitrance "while avoiding confrontation". MILITIA CULTURE He conceded that many militiamen still view the police as a discredited pillar of Gaddafi's 42-year dictatorship. 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