OSCE Office promotes community policing with conference in Baku

OSCE Office promotes community policing with conference in Baku

A two-day community policing conference, organized by

the OSCE Office in Baku, began today with senior Azerbaijani police

management, government agencies, civil society and international experts.

Five years ago, the OSCE Office launched a project under which it works

closely with the Interior Ministry to develop community policing and other

forms of police-public partnerships in Azerbaijan.

"Thanks to this project, there has been a notable improvement in the

communication between the police and the public, resulting in better

co-operation and improved mutual trust," said Ambassador Bilge Cankorel, the

Head of the OSCE Office in Baku.

"We also work together to develop strategies to increase the number of

women in the police service, and to improve the police response to

gender-related violence such as domestic violence and trafficking in human

beings."

The OSCE Secretariat's Strategic Police Matters Unit (SPMU) will present an

assessment of the community-policing project in Azerbaijan during the

conference.

The report includes several recommendations on how to improve officers'

community policing skills. It also looks at how the police services'

structures can be improved to promote community policing, and it suggests the

creation of new venues for police-community interaction.

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