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Police-public partnership activities

Workshop

Date:
Location:
Syunik province of Armenia
Organized by:
OSCE Office in Yerevan, Armenian Police
Source:
OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
Fields of work:
Policing

About

The two-day event aims to strengthen co-operation between the local police and high school and university students.

 The first day local police representatives together with National Centre for Legal Research NGONGO
non-governmental organization
representatives (they implement the project) visit the school (in this case it is a local school in Verishen) and meet with some 30 high school students, they introduce the work of the police, schoolchildren can try various special means, 4 brochures on corruption, drug trafficking, human trafficking are distributed and discussed with the NGO representative.

The next day -- 11 October -- the same crew (local police officers, NGO representatives, OSCE staff) visit the local university (in this case it is Goris State University) and meet with some 50 students to discuss police work in various fields, then students are split into groups to "play" Citizen's Advisory Group and come up with ideas/problems that exist in their respective communities to discuss with the police.