Police Training to Promote the Rule of Law and Protect the Population (2022) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
1 Introduction
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It covers a range of purposes: demonstrating police tactics, sharing community-oriented policing practices, developing managerial skills in senior officers, preparing front-line officers for specific deployment, and building greater training capacity within a country. Where possible, INL aims to provide training from the top, focused on senior leadership, down through managers, supervisors, and then entry-level personnel to ensure that all levels are prepared to employ as well as support the use of essential knowledge and skills (U.S.
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The committee comprises experts in criminology, economics, international and organized crime, law, policing, and political science and brings knowledge and experience from a portfolio of work that spans four continents. Such experience includes conducting research as well as advising governments on police policy in several countries including but not limited to Afghanistan, Brazil, Colombia, Ghana, India, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States (see the Appendix for more details)
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State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs defines the concept as: A principle of governance in which all persons, institutions, and enti ties, public, and private, including the state itself, are accountable to [domestic] laws that are publicly promulgated, equally enforced, and independently adjudicated, that are consistent with international human rights norms and standards.b Other dimensions and detailed conditions of the ROL are available in the broad legal and philosophical literature (e.g., Bingham, 2011; O'Donnell, 2004)
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Drawing on relevant lit erature, particularly from the international context, the project will inform the State Department's capacity-building activities aimed at strengthening the effectiveness of local, in-country law enforcement agencies, building the technical skills of for eign law enforcement personnel through training and technical assistance, and assisting in institutional police reform at the local level. Each of the five workshops will bring together experts to discuss the evi dence and its implications for the international sector, as well as practitioners using the evidence to implement policy.
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Workshop panelists were invited from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the U.S. Department of Justice International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program, the Nigerian Police Force, and academic institutions with expertise in researching these themes and experience in designing and delivering police training.
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The report presents the committee's assessment of the information it has gathered and provides guidance for police training based on the state of research evidence in this area. It does not contain complete workshop proceedings, but instead draws on resources and descriptions from the workshop discussion as relevant.4 As a project commissioned to conduct five workshops and produce five reports in a rapid production process, the committee's methods d iffer somewhat from the single consensus report model, such as the report recently prepared by the ad hoc consensus committee on proactive policing (see NASEM, 2018c)
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is an approach to police practice and management that uses scientifically derived information to strengthen police departments' decision-making, tactics, strategies, and overall agency functioning. An EBP approach requires a reliable body of knowledge about myriad police practices for both internal organization and external activities; the ongoing practice of targeting, testing, and tracking these activities against legitimate outcomes; and the institutionalization and implementation of knowledge in police practices (Lum and Koper, 2017; Sherman, 1998, 2013)
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While this may seem to be an obvious first principle, police agencies in both the Global North and the Global South continue to not focus on this knowledge. Instead, a great deal of time in police training is devoted to standard operating procedures, such as writing reports, submitting forensic evidence, and making arrests.
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. The practice of EBP requires that agencies -- including those like INL that are involved in promoting policing reform -- actively and consistently account for, assess, and evaluate their practices against consistent standards, knowledge about effective police practices, and effective training approaches.
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found some regional commonalities but also significant local variation in numerous characteristics perceived by law enforcement as successful characteristics of gangs. The different nuances that emerged across countries suggest the importance of adaptability of training, especially when exporting training from the Global North to the Global South.
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