News in English     | 13.12.2019. 18:00 |

Workshop held in Sarajevo on police sensitivity in working with LGBTI persons

FENA Press release

SARAJEVO, December 13 (FENA) - A one-day workshop on the topic "Investigating hate crimes", attended by about 40 police and law enforcement officers (men and women) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was held today in Sarajevo.

This is the second workshop of this type, organized under the project "Protecting Human Rights: Strengthening the Capacity of Police to Combat Violence against LGBTI Persons," supported by the Embassy of the United States in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The aim of the workshop is to increase the sensitivity of the police force in working with LGBTI persons, to recognize hate crimes, and to investigate and prove them in a timely manner.

Strengthening the capacity of police to combat violence against LGBTI persons will contribute to increased confidence in police structures and increase in reporting of such crimes, along with successful investigators and prosecution of offenses that will serve as a deterrent for potential perpetrators.

Hate crimes send a strong message of intolerance and cause great fear in the community towards which they are directed, which is why it is important for the state to respond immediately.

The lecturers are experts in the field coming from the Association of Female Police Officers Network, the Faculty of Criminal Justice, Criminology and Security Studies and the Sarajevo Open Center.

The Handbook for Police Officers in the Cases of Endangering the Rights of LGBTI Persons is under development, which will be promoted in March next year and distributed to all police agencies in BiH, stated the Association of Female Police Officers Network.

(FENA) S. R.

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