Officials from the Supreme Committee for Elections and Referendum (SCER) are attending a training programme in the Japanese capital Tokyo. THe programme is being sponsored by the General Assembly for Elections in Japan in coordination with the Japanese Agency for International Cooperation (JICA). The training included lectures on the police efforts to combat electoral irregularities, election campaign regulations and regulations to ensure the integrity of elections as well as the punishments imposed on electoral violations. Lectures also included the rules of electoral management and aspects of modern management of the elections as well as democracy and the types of political systems and types of party systems.