Acknowledgements
The resource book is the result of a joint effort by the United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime (UNODC) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
(OHCHR), with the financial and substantive support of the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and the financial support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway. The publication benefited
from information gathered at an expert meeting held in Vienna in May 2015, as well as through
two regional expert meetings organized by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian
Law and Human Rights and UNODC, respectively in Buenos Aires, from 8 to 9 May 2014 and
Tunis, from 26 to 28 January 2015.
The contributions received from the following experts are hereby acknowledged with appreciation:
Otto Adang, Netherlands Police Academy; Stuart Casey-Maslen, Consultant to Professor
Christof Heyns, University of Pretoria and former United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions; Neil Corney, Omega Research Foundation; Milena
Costas Trascasas, Consultant; Omer Fisher, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and
Human Rights (ODHIR); Chris Graveson, Consultant; Robert Grinstead, Consultant; Hilarius
(Lars) Huybrechts, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC); Neil Jarman, Institute
for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice, Queen’s University Belfast; Chair,
OSCE Panel of Experts on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly; Tim Mairs, Police Service of Northern
Island (PSNI); Simon Martin, Consultant, former police officer (United Kingdom); Miriam
Minder, Swiss Government; Ruth Montgomery, Consultant; Jacob Punnoose, India National
Police; David Rosset, Office of the Police Commissioner, United Nations Mission in South Sudan;
Matthew Sands, Legal adviser, Association for the Prevention of Torture; Olafimihan Adeoye,
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Operations, Nigerian Police Force, Awka-Anambra
State HQ; Ignacio Cano, Coordinator Laboratory for the Analysis of Violence, State University
Rio de Janeiro; Maja Daruwala, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), New Delhi;
Uladzimir Dzenisevich, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), New Delhi; Hugo
Frühling, University of Chile; Roger Gaspar, Consultant, former police officer (United Kingdom);
Rachel Neild, Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI); Vivienne O’Connor, United States Institute
of Peace (USIP); Ralph Price, Chicago Police Department; Darius Rejali, Reeds University;
Colin Roberts, Universities Police Science Institute, former police officer (United Kingdom);
Ralph Roche, Human Rights Advisor, Police Service of Northern Island (PSNI); Josiane
Somdata Tapsoba, Legal Officer, African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR)
Secretariat, African Union Commission (AUC), and the International Network to Promote the
Rule of Law (INPROL).
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