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Part 3
Values and Attitudes:
Assessment methods:
• Willingness to act to protect the human rights
of everyone involved (bystanders, terrorism
suspects and officers);
• Written test on
knowledge;
• Capacity to carry out an operation, arrest and
detention effectively and safely;
• Fishbowl exercises
to test attitudes and
skills;
• Capacity to act under pressure in accordance
with the law, particularly in the use of force,
firearms and when questioning terrorism
suspects;
• Review of
performance and
progress throughout
the course; and
• Commitment to use force, especially lethal force, • Aggressive attitude
as a last resort;
and negative remarks
about working in
• Readiness to use force proportionally, legally and
compliance with
to account for it;
human rights to weigh
strongly in the final
• Commitment to use best practice in accordance
pass-or-fail outcome.
with human rights standards when planning an
operation and executing an arrest; and
Follow-up of expected
learning outcomes dur• Commitment to safeguarding the mental and
ing performance review
physical integrity of terrorism suspects in
sessions with superior
custody.
and supervisors
Skills:
• Ability to carry out the arrest or detention
of a suspect within the law, with continuous
consideration to the:
→→Right to life;
→→Prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment;
→→Right to a fair trial;
→→Freedom from arbitrary arrest or detention;
→→Right to be promptly informed about one’s
rights according to domestic law;
→→Right to notify appropriate persons of one’s
choice of one’s arrest, detention, imprisonment and whereabouts;
→→Right to legal counsel of one’s choice;
→→Obligation to secure medical attention;
• Ability to apply non-violent means before
resorting to the use of force and making use of
firearms only as a last resort, in compliance with
human rights standards;
• How to carry out a search respecting the dignity
of the suspect;
• How to question a suspect in order to gather
information; and
• How to treat a terrorism suspect in custody.
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