PART I. SETTING THE BOUNDARIES FOR THE USE OF FORCE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT
One good practice example is highlighted in OHCHR’s Human Rights and Law Enforcement,
A Manual on Human Rights Training for Law Enforcement Officials, which suggests that: “In order
to ensure the smooth running of the protest, it is important for law enforcement officers to
develop a comprehensive media liaison strategy. Such a strategy should include efforts to develop
long-term communication channels with editors and journalists in order that law enforcement
can publicize public safety messages, messages aimed at community reassurance, and appeals for
all those who plan to engage in demonstrations or public protest, to do so peacefully. Where it is
anticipated that crowd violence will occur, command officials should communicate to the public
via the media, in order to explain how their property and personal safety will be protected.”108
UNESCO TRAINING MATERIALa
The training manual Freedom of Expression and Public Order aims to provide security forces with
both theoretical and practical tools regarding their duties and obligations in relation to maintaining
order while respecting human rights, freedom of expression and the security of journalists. The
manual consists of seven modules, some of which specifically target members of security forces,
while others envisage joint training sessions for members of security forces and journalists. These
joint sessions aim to promote greater mutual understanding of the reality and the needs of, respectively, members of security forces and journalists in a democracy.
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UNESCO (2015).
108
OHCHR, Human Rights and Law Enforcement, A Manual on Human Rights Training for Law Enforcement
Officials, 2017, chapter 9.
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