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The Police of the CR, building on relevant foreign experience in Roma minority
policing at excluded locations, drafted a project targeted primarily at improved
relationship between the Police and the Roma community, particularly
at locations suffering from increased social tensions and minor conflicts.
The key element of the project was a sociological research paper mapping
the current needs in the context of policing socially excluded locations.
The research resulted in a number of follow up activities, primarily targeting
improvement and deepening of international contacts as well as gathering of
experience, methods and procedures used by foreign counterparts responsible
for Roma policing. The police experts trained under the umbrella of the Project
received high quality materials to streamline their everyday performance of
duty.
Foreign experience applied in practice and adapted to the local conditions shall
ultimately lead to
reduced incidence of crime at socially excluded locations
and help minimize the number of inter-ethnic conflicts between the Roma and
the majority population in the CR. Thanks to the Project, the Police of the CR
will be much better prepared to face the increasing social diversity.
Police Experts in Roma
Minority Policing
Project PDP 6: Implementation of the police specialists
in the field of police work in relation to Roma minority
group in the socially segregated locations
Programme CZ14: Projects
Implementing period:
20. 10. 2014 – 30. 4. 2017
Objective:
Training of Police experts in
Roma minority policing at
socially excluded locations
and their introduction to
service; follow-up training in
minority Policing for minority
liaison officers; follow-up
training of selected Police
managers
Approved grant:
EUR 500,000
Highlights of the Project
implementation phase
“It was interesting to visit
Roma villages in the eastern
part of Slovakia and to meet
Roma artists at the Košice´s
Romathan theatre. At the end
of the performance, the Czech
policemen joined the artist in
their dance.“
JUDr. Mgr. Václav Vlček,
Project Manager