Appendix 1
From 16 to 17 August, ODIHR organized a standard training
course for 16 police officers in Kyiv to further strengthen their
understanding of effective policing practices and the need
to respect and protect the rights of all persons, particularly
those excluded or discriminated against, such as Roma.
From 16 to 19 December, ODIHR organized a ToT course for
16 participants from the Romanian police, in Bucharest. As a
result of the training, participants increased their knowledge
and understanding on the importance of overcoming existing
stereotypes against Roma and of the benefits of complying
with human rights standards in policing activities.
Hate Crime
Throughout 2019, ODIHR continued to support
participating States in addressing hate crimes through
implementation of its “Training against Hate Crimes
for Law Enforcement (TAHCLE) programme”45. The
participating States showed continuous interest in the
TAHCLE programme. A number of MoUs on implementing
the programme were signed with two participating States
in 2019 and two further participating States expressed
preliminary interest in implementing it in the future.
• On 19 February, ODIHR signed an MoU to implement
TAHCLE with the Georgian MoIA. The signing
ceremony held in Tbilisi gathered 24 participants from
various MoIA departments and police. ODIHR also
discussed with the representatives of the Human Rights
Protection and Monitoring Department the next steps of
the programme’s implementation. The curriculum was
adjusted to the national context, translated into the local
language, reviewed by the National Implementation
WG, and duly finalized. From 16 to 18 April, ODIHR
conducted a ToT session for 30 participants (11 women
and 19 men) in Tbilisi. The national authorities will
begin cascading the TAHCLE training to all relevant
police units.
• On 8 April, ODIHR signed an MoU with the Spanish
MoI to implement TAHCLE. As a consequence, from 22
to 24 May, ODIHR conducted a needs assessment visit
to Madrid to understand the scope and nature of biasmotivated crimes and to inform about the implementation
of TAHCLE. In total, ODIHR held meetings with 22
(11 women and 11 men) representatives from 14 CSO
representatives working on hate crime, discrimination,
hate speech and providing support to refugees and
migrants, LGBTI Roma and Muslim communities, ten
MoI representatives, (three women and seven men)
45 Training Against Hate Crimes for Law Enforcement (TAHCLE) - http://www.osce.
org/odihr/tahcle.
Stakeholders at an ODIHR training course on ‘Protecting
Human Rights and Effectively Countering Violent Extremism
and Radicalization that May Lead to Terrorism’ for Spanish
police officers, Albacete, Spain, November 2019.
(Kenneth Pennington)
of the MoI (including National Hate Crime Office and
Criminal Statistics Department, police, civil guard and
representatives of the Chief Prosecutor’s Office specialized
on hate crimes). ODIHR also organized an awarenessraising workshop on hate crimes for 41 representatives
from the National Police and Guardia Civil (11 women
and 30 men) and participated in the TAHCLE National
Implementation WG meeting where the TAHCLE
curriculum was presented and customization process and
next steps were explained.
From 19 to 26 June, ODIHR conducted two TAHCLE ToT
sessions for the representatives of the Spanish National
Police and Civil Guards in Madrid. The training gathered 61
participants (14 women and 47 men) and covered the key
aspects of addressing hate crimes, including defining hate
crimes, bias indicators, investigation aspects and victim
support, as well as practical sessions for the future trainers.
• On 4 April, ODIHR delivered an awareness-raising
seminar for senior representatives of the Czech Police and
MoI in Prague. The event gathered 26 participants (six
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