Towards training modules on police / LGBT joint strategies to combat hate crime, 13 December 2010
On 13 December 2010, ILGA-Europe invited a group of 35 representatives of LGBT organisations, police forces and police academies to have an intense working seminar in the frame of our project “Working with the police and challenging hate crime in Europe”.
This seminar was dedicated to a common work on designing training modules to be proposed to LGBT organisations and police forces in Europe, in order for them to jointly combat hate crime.
During this interactive working and brainstorming session, participants were asked to participate freely and actively, to allow ILGA-Europe to build on their knowledge and know-how. Training contents and training methodology were both core focuses of the exchanges.
Following this meeting, ILGA-Europe will conceive a coherent and flexible set of training modules which fitting the needs of its members and their police partners. This should be done by mid-2010.
Our middle-term objective will then be to disseminate this training model, and to assist those of our members willing to adapt it and implement it in their local or national context. We will also work on further dissemination through the existing networks and training curricula of European institutions, working in cooperation with ILGA-Europe’s members.
The seminar was kindly hosted by Bruno De Lille, Secretary of State for Equal Opportunities of the Brussels-Capital region, with the support of the local police force of Brussels and of the Belgian federal police’s diversity department.
Earlier this year, ILGA-Europe had already published a handbook on best practices of cooperation between police forces and LGBT organisations: “Joining forces to combat homophobic and transphobic hate crime” .
For further information, write to Joël Le Déroff, Senior Policy & Programmes Officer.
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Download the report of the seminar here
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