Human-rights based Police Training? Absolutely. But ONLY in Europe

[99th_Monkey]

Foreword
Police training is the first and most significant step towards shaping more effective and professional policing in the future. Human rights-based training helps participants to proactively respect and protect fundamental rights. It ensures that the use of force is exercised in accordance with the principles of legality, necessity and proportionality – principles that are fundamental to the development of just societies. Such training will therefore enable police officers to fulfil the role envisaged for them in the European Union’s roadmap for work in the area of justice, freedom and security.
This training manual seeks to help foster a relationship of trust between police and society as a whole and in all its diversity, focusing therefore on the rights to non-discrimination, dignity and life. A series of surveys and projects by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has underscored the link between trust in the authorities and the enjoyment of fundamental rights. Where trust exists, crime reporting levels will rise; more crimes will therefore be addressed, delivering justice to victims. By safe- guarding all citizens’ fundamental rights, police officers will engender trust throughout society, contributing to a virtuous circle that will encourage the reporting of crime, contribute to more effective crime fighting, enhance justice for victims and reduce societal tensions.

FRA developed the Fundamental rights-based police training manual in close cooperation with the Association of European Police Colleges, the European Police College and their networks of national police academies to help build such trust and further the establish- ment of common policing standards that respect the principles of fundamental rights. Our intention is to enhance police profession- alism and effectiveness throughout the European Union by providing police trainers with a practical, hands-on tool that helps to integrate fundamental rights into police training.
Morten Kjaerum
Director of the FRA

TABLE OF CONTENTS
MODULE 1: BASICS OF HUMAN RIGHTS00 Introduction............................................................................................................................................... 23 Activity: Understanding the basics of human rights............................................................................................24
Handout – Basic ideas and concepts of human rights.......................................................................................26 Briefing notes .............................................................................................................................................................. 27
1. What are human rights? ................................................................................................................................
2. What types of human rights are there? ...................................................................................................... 28
3. What do human rights do?..........................................................................................................................29
4. What obligations exist under human rights?..............................................................................................30
5. Where are human rights embodied in law and how are they monitored? ............................................ 32

MODULE 2: POLICING FROM A HUMAN RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE0
Activity: Policing from a human rights perspective..............................................................................................46
Handout 1 – Discussing police and human rights...............................................................................................49
Handout 2 – Practical human rights examples...................................................................................................50

MORE IN THE PDF FILE:
http://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra-2013-fundamental-rights-based-police-training_en_0.pdf

[niyad]

1. but what are they supposed to do with all those cool military toys?

[99th_Monkey]

2. Beat them into plowshares! Hell yah! ~nt~