Capacity building of the police officers working in multi-ethnic environment, including Roma communities and prevention of ill-treatment by the police

The project is aimed at prevention and reduction of violation of human rights by the police while acting in a multi-ethnic environment, with special focus on the Roma population, enhancing the police officers skills in working with Roma, including in relation to addressing issues related to their safety and security, and in full compliance with human rights standards prevention of domestic violence, trafficking in human beings in Roma community and prevention of ill-treatment by the police. The target group of the project are cadets in AMoI and MoI employees: police officers working in multi-ethnic environment, with emphasis of the Roma population and other vulnerable groups; police officers authorized to work as community police officers, cadets and police officers passing training at AMoI. The results will have positive impact on society and in particular on persons belonging to a multi-ethnical and multicultural environment, including Roma population as it will lead to the prevention of crimes and reduction of human rights violations by police officers. The project activities are divided into two components, which in their integrity provide improvement of the capacity of police officers necessary for working in a multi-ethic environment and are designed to increase the respect for human rights. The two components are, as follows: 1. Human rights based policing in Roma community, containing 5 activities and Component 2. Crime prevention in multi-ethical and multicultural environment, containing 4 activities.

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