Category: Police ethics
Dmytro Yagunov: Police Training and the European Human Rights Standards
The CPT standards on prevention of ill-treatment in policing are strictly linked to the issue of police trainings. Every national report made by the CPT on torture prevention in policing contains recommendations to improve the system of police trainings with the aim to exclude excessive use of force by the police and to avoid unnecessary…
UN High Commissioner Expresses Concerns Over Police Brutality During Madagascar Protests
Police in Madagascar have fired tear gas as hundreds of young protesters returned to the streets of the capital, despite the president agreeing to dissolve his government. The so-called Gen-Z protests have seen thousands demonstrate in cities across Madagascar since Thursday, demanding an end to repeated water and power cuts. President Andry Rajoelina sacked his…
Dmytro Yagunov: How to Return Trust to the Police in Postwar Ukraine
During the war, the Government had the priority to combat against Russian occupiers, where a traditional peace-time issue of human rights approach has been replaced with humanitarian law. There are grounds to believe that Ukraine will have a generation of police officers grown up on the long distance from procedural justice and human rights. We can also presume…
Lawmakers in the Brazilian State of Rio De Janeiro Approved Bonuses for Police Officers Who Kill “Criminals”
Lawmakers in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro have approved a bonus for police officers who kill “criminals,” a move that sparked outrage among rights defenders who fear a “massacre”. A similar measure, nicknamed the “Wild West Bonus”, was in effect from 1995 to 1998 when it was scrapped due to a sharp rise…
Police Chase Anti-Government Protesters in Serbia as President Pledges Crackdown
The protests were initially triggered by a railway station collapse in Novi Sad in November last year that killed 16 people, with many blaming corruption and corner-cutting by Vučić’s government for the disaster. While anti-corruption demonstrations have drawn in hundreds of thousands of protestors, they had been largely peaceful until Wednesday’s clash, when pro-government loyalists…