Protection of human rights (HR) is one of the core elements in daily police service. It also becomes, year after year, the object of deeper and deeper analysis of opinion researches about Police activity. It covers two aspects: relations with citizens/inhabitants and relations within our institutions.

However, special role it appears in daily service with citizens. The truth is that Police services have different problems in each European Union country. It has derived from the history of each national formations, their competences as well as social problems that they are dealing with. This causes that, although policemen act among the same rights which have been guaranteed in (e.g.) European Convention on HR (also internal rules), the perception of understanding these rights and their practical meaning for policemen could be a little bit different. The second obvious thing is that frequency of HR infringements in the European states is different. These experiences have to be an object of common work for a group of people from: Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Slovakia in one project. Such variety, both geographical and cultural, guarantees on European level the proper diagnosis of the problem.

The common report, made at the end of the project, will be an effect of works on HR as a subject of policemen training. It will include the analysis of present state, the most important differences in some countries, as well as the indication on the best practices which can be transferred to another training systems. It would give the qualitative change and the possibility of recognizing new training methods.

1. Establish - by participation in the project and 'life' contacts - the informal net of policemen /police teachers (from schools and regular units) dealing with Human Rights issues;

2. Indicate main problems in the HR protection and understanding in the Police services, while on duty and during policemen's trainings in different countries of EU;

3. Indicate main tasks of a middle and high management staff in this area in Police units;

4. Choose the best practices in training/education area of the HR protection and implement them to other country;

5. Make description for other Police services representatives, including internal rules relating on above mentioned questions;

6. Indicate possible and desirable cooperation with out-of-Police institutions in above mentioned area;

7. Create the report / the book which would be an analysis of present state, description of the project's activity and indication what can be transferred to training in other countries.

 

Seminars and workshops are basic methods on which all participants will be obliged to active participation. There will also be visits in Police stations and meetings with representatives of institution (e.g. NGO's) dealing with HR protection.

In police cooperation area there are very important challenges. Many things which so far were nationally reserved, become now an element of multicooperation. It is the case - for example - with exchange of information or common transborder service. This development forced policemen to create common standards of training (or their basic elements), e.g. on HR protection.

Countries participating in the project are both countries which have large emigration or where the number of minority seems to be significant (ethnic, national, etc.). From geographical, cultural and historic point of view, the partners have different experiences. Knowledge of that and recognition of legal and cultural or social customs is for policemen involved in the project very important.

Together, the 6 partners educate several thousand persons annually. Passed and transferred information would be for trainees/students surely useful in their service. The police schools will get however the possibility for develop new competences for current co-operation. It becomes already a normal effect of functioning in frames of the European Union. It's important that beside this, the policemen are in the next seasons obliged to prepare themselves for work in multicultural communities, where internal state's borders can't cause different treatment of persons by public bodies/authorities.

1. Each institution will select their best/innovate practices of training. They could be transferred (all or part of them) to another countries. Established contacts can bring more results in the future also on different areas of co-operation.

2. In frames of the project, more than 45 people will get to know conditions and problems, stepping out in different countries, regarding HR in/and Police. They will collect new competences, which could be use in their present and future professional career.

3. During the project realization and also later, chosen best practices will be implemented. In the next years, several thousands of graduates/policemen/students will end courses in these 6 police schools/units. They will be on duty in many different places and various local communities. The better skilled is a policemen, the more professional his job is and the better opinion about him appears in a community/society.

4. Report/final book will be passed to different training units, supervisory bodies and chosen external institutions.