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Working with police in kyrgyzstan

Dahn Pak, Labrys, Kyrgyzstan. Working with police in kyrgyzstan. Background . First (and last for the moment) training for future police officers in national academy of police in 2009 About 15 participants 2 days. Main challenge and solution .

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Working with police in kyrgyzstan

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  1. Dahn Pak, Labrys, Kyrgyzstan Working with police in kyrgyzstan

  2. Background • First (and last for the moment) training for future police officers in national academy of police in 2009 • About 15 participants • 2 days

  3. Main challenge and solution • Impossible to conduct a training without approval of higher ranking officers, who are also impossible to get to without any connections. • Use any connections you have to organize at least something – in case of Labrys it was a training in the police academy

  4. The seminar • 1st day – very stressful for the trainers, who had to deal with extreme homophobia and transphobia of the participants • Subjects discussed: • Who are LGBT (terminology) • What is homosexuality/transsexuality • What problems do they meet in society?

  5. The seminar (continued) • 2nd day - human rights day • Subjects discussed: • International human rights conventions • Universal Declaration of the UN • National laws and constitution of Kyrgyzstan • - all of that concerning LGBT rights

  6. Lessons learned • Police are not homophobic and transphobic because they just want to be like that – you need to raise awareness • From participants we learned that if there is no explicit protection of LGBT in national laws, the police think they do not have to protect LGBT rights

  7. Critique • Trainers were a-priori negative towards the training, results and participants – it is better not to have such opinions and attitudes beforehand • Two opposing sides in the training – the trainers and the participants. This should not happen – instead, we must always remind them that we have one goal.

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