advisory support, a number of prerequisites to sustainable police reform implementation have
been provided such as the development of an explicit police reform roadmap and the
establishment of the Government-led body to control implementation of the reform process.
Police Reform
The CiB facilitated a number of events to ensure transparent consideration of various
versions of the police reform concept, including a roundtable to present the consolidated
police reform concept and priority measures which was organized by the PRP at the national
level. The roundtable was attended by 60 representatives from the PMO, Parliament, all law
enforcement bodies, civil society, the US Embassy and international organizations. As a
result, the Police Reform Measures and Action Plan document, a police reform roadmap
backed by the plan of explicit actions, have been developed with the PRP’s advisory support
and finally adopted by the Kyrgyz Government. The roadmap summarizes the huge and
concerted efforts of working groups supported by the PRP in cross-cutting co-operation with
the OSCE’s Community Security Initiative in Kyrgyzstan (CSI) to ensure inclusion of
international standards of policing, including principles of gender mainstreaming, human
rights and multi-ethnic policing.
The Police Reform Steering Council – composed of key representatives of Parliament, the
PMO, Government and civil society – has been set up to ensure a strong supervision and coordination of the police reform process from the side of the Government. A nation-wide
baseline public opinion survey was conducted to collect baseline data showing an index of
citizens’ trust. This research was to be conducted on an annual basis with the PRP’s support
letting the Police Reform Steering Council and Civilian Oversight institutions keep track of the
police reform implementation through weighing the effectiveness of results against the
research findings.
Police Accountability
The police reform roadmap stipulates the establishment of a Civilian Oversight Body to check
and balance the Police Reform Steering Council represented by the Government structures.
After researching avenues of oversight that are already in place, it was concluded that a
multi-tiered system was already in place. Each ministry had a review process and there were
additional processes under the PMO as well as the Ombudsman and several NGOs. These
latter organizations were held outside the realm of political control. It was agreed that there
was in fact a substantial civilian oversight structure in place. Existing structures,26 together
with the MoI Internal Security Department and NGOs could act in partnership performing the
civilian oversight role. Recommendations were going to be used for designing the PRP’s
2014 UB Programme.
The monitoring of Post Administrative Arrest Redistribution Facilities (PAARF) that are
managed by police, was supported by the PRP in co-ordination with the CiB’s Human
Dimension unit and carried out by an implementing partner. In 2013 the project focused on
the working conditions and skills of the police staff in the PAARF. As a result of the project, a
more efficient and structured training course for police officers working in the PAARF was
designed.
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For instance, Local Crime Prevention Centres (LCPCs) at the local level, Public Advisory Committees at the district level
and Public Supervision Boards at the national level.
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