Translation of "Professeure de droit d'un institut de police " (French → English) :

19. Draws attention to the fact that, despite some achievements to date, the overall outcome of police reform efforts during the past five years has been disappointing, demonstrating the serious difficulties facing the international community on the ground when it comes to institution building; urges the international community in general, and the EU police mission in particular, to continue their efforts to develop Afghanistan’s own police force, characterised by respect for human rights and the rule of law;

22. Draws attention to the fact that, despite some achievements to date, the overall outcome of police reform efforts during the past five years has been disappointing, demonstrating the serious difficulties facing the international community on the ground when it comes to institution building; urges the international community in general, and the EU police mission in particular, to continue their efforts to develop Afghanistan's own police force, characterised by respect for human rights and the rule of law;

As a Danish professor of criminal law expressed it very clearly yesterday, the alarming thing is that ‘the EU Commission and other institutions are merely using the attacks in the United States as an opportunity to promote far-reaching harmonisation, and harmonisation means that the national traditions of criminal law, criminal procedure and police investigation are eliminated in favour of arrangements adopted in more or less of a ...[+++]panic that make controls more stringent and damage civic rights’.

In Guatemala, the Community has helped to implement the peace agreement and contributed to institution-building in key sectors such as rule of law and police.

The European Council in Feira identified four priority areas for civilian crisis management intervention: police, rule of law, civil protection and civilian administration. These priority areas fall within a much broader set of civilian crisis management interventions, for which the Community has clear competence, including, for example, trade, economic incentives, humanitarian interventions, rehabilitation and institution building.

CEPOL's main objectives and tasks are to increase knowledge of the national police systems and structures of other Member States, of Europol and of cross-border police co-operation within the European Union; to strengthen knowledge of international instruments, in particular those which already exist at European Union level in the field of co-operation on combating crime; to provide appropriate training with regard to respect for democratic safeguards with particular reference to the rights of defence; and to encourage co-operation with other police training institutes.