Practice All police officials Become familiar with the community you serve. Meet with leaders and representatives of various ethnic and racial communities. Participate in foot patrols and community service activities in ethnically diverse neighbourhoods. Speak out against ethnic or racial stereotyping or slurs in the community and in the police station. Participate in ethnic or race relations training programmes offered by your service. Speak to minority group members in the communities you serve to hear about their needs, complaints and suggestions. Be sensitive and responsive. Command and supervisory officials Organize in-service training to sensitize police to the importance of good ethnic/race relations and fair, non-discriminatory law enforcement. Develop a race relations plan of action in consultation with various ethnic communities. Issue clear orders on appropriate comportment, language and attitudes vis-à-vis various ethnic and racial groups. Evaluate your recruitment, hiring and promotional policies to ensure fairness among various groups. Actively recruit members of ethnic and racial minorities, and groups underrepresented in your police service. Establish mechanisms to receive, continuously, the complaints and suggestions of members of ethnic, racial, religious and linguistic groups in the community. Adopt community policing strategies. Appoint a minority relations coordinator within your service. Punish discriminatory, insensitive or otherwise inappropriate professional behaviour. Reward officer initiatives supportive of better community relations. Provide in-service training in racial/ethnic relations for all police. Questions 01. When considering “non-discrimination”, what is the importance of the principle that “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”? 02. Enumerate briefly the various ways in which a State can meet its obligations to ensure human rights to all individuals in its territory without distinction on such grounds as race, colour, sex, religion and belief. 03. Enumerate briefly the ways in which police can assist the State in meeting its obligations to ensure human rights to all individuals in its territory without distinction on such grounds as race, colour, sex, religion and belief. 04. Consider the entitlement to equal protection of the law for all persons and enumerate the implications of that right for policing. 05. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (article 20) requires advocacy of racial hatred to be prohibited by law. There is also a right to freedom of opinion and expression (e.g. “free speech”). How can these two requirements be reconciled? 06. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (article 11) requires State parties to the Convention to ensure that 51