European Union/Council of Europe Joint Programme “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey – Phase II”
Launching activity on addressing hate crime by law enforcement
Podgorica (Montenegro) 18-20/02/2020
REPORT - SUMMARY of CONFERENCE:
40 participants : Police officers from 6 countries (Montenegro, Albania, North Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo, BosniaHerzegovina) and NGO’s of those countries
Tuesday 18/02/2020 Policing hate crime against LGBTI persons: training for a professional police response – day one
-Opening with speeches of:
- Council of Europe
- Police Administration of Montenegro
- EUD
- ERA
-Introduction to the training and of participants; inputs from Police participants and from civil society
-Key concepts: groups affected by hate crimes, hate crime at the international and regional level
-Understanding underreporting
-Human rights and the role of police officers
-Investigations activities: a victim centred approach
Wednesday 19/02/2020 – day two
-Collecting the evidence: identifying indicators and make good use of evidence
-Supporting LGBTI communities: an effective police response
-Working with civil society organisations and how they can help
-Partnering with civil society organizations: how to work together
Thursday 20/02/2020 Towards a common engagement in the region
-Roundtable discussion to present examples in the region: from a Police perspective and from the civil society perspective
-Presentation of the European LGBT Police Association (EGPA) by Alain Parmentier
-Presentation of the Serbian advices for serbian Police officers about LGBTI issues by Katarina Zivulovic
-Continuation of the discussion: local level activities
-Work in mixed teams: proposal for the way ahead – how the HF program and COE can help
-Presentation of the proposals and discussion
-What is next under the regional and specific actions on promotion of diversity and equality and under the COE’s SOGI plan of work
-Conclusions
Trainers: Katarina Zivulovic, Herman Renes, Alain Parmentier
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