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Police Station Visitors Week 2007
(16/10/2007)
The Police Station Visit is a global event organized by Altus Global Alliance. Altus is an alliance of 6 academic centers and non governmental organizations working across 5 continents. CLEEN Foundation is a founding member and the Africa representative of the alliance. CLEEN Foundation will be organizing the visit in the following countries; Republic of Benin, Ghana. Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and south Africa. The visit is structured in such a way that a team of at least 3 and a maximum of 8 visitors including school children (who are drawn from the local communities where the police station walk through visit would take place) would visit their local police station.
Providing access to an effective and respectful police service is increasingly recognized as essential to good governance, and accountability is at the heart of how change in policing happens. Accountability drives improvement from both the supply and the demand sides; giving police commanders incentives for improvement and the courts, but also directly to the citizens they serve – especially the poor – there is a real chance to undo the fear and the distrust of police that is a daily reality in Nigeria and not only in Nigeria but also around the world.
The visit is being hinged on various reform processes that are taking place in the world over in the area of police reform most especially transparency and accountability in police services. For example, community policing is enjoying renewed popularity among police leaders, which brings with it efforts being made to engage ordinary citizens.
The visits would bring police oversight within the governance structure of the country and strengthen police accountability to local citizens, particularly to poor and marginalized populations; this will cut across the socio economic class of the participating countries, States and police stations (and this will take place simultaneously – from Monday 22nd October – Sunday 28th October, 2007)
The visit is an annual activity by local citizens to local police stations, coordinated globally and producing comparable scores in 5 dimensions of police service. The visits and the scores will allow Altus to identify and promote examples of good practices nationally and globally, while allowing national civil society organizations and local citizens to engage police commanders in their own areas to improve services before the next year’s visits.
The result would also inform technical assistance that CLEEN Foundation or any other interested organization will provide to police organizations and police oversight bodies towards improving their responsiveness to local concerns.
It is useful to state that the reports of the visits to the police stations using this method will not produce a ‘consumer satisfaction index’. They will not produce a portrait of police behavior or narrative descriptions of public encounters with the police forces. And they may fail to record all aspects of police work in the police station. But the reports will register whether, to what degree, and in what way police stations are designed, intended, or operated to serve the public.
The five dimensions of police service on which the Kit allows the visitors to score:
Community Orientation
This section is focused on determining the degree to which each police station is a resource for the community by providing information, is easily accessible to new visitors, and whether staff has been allocated to address community questions and requests. This section is based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), article 29(1) Code of Conduct, and the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for Non-custodial Measures (the Tokyo Rules).
Physical Condition
These questions are designed to capture dimensions of basic provisions of space and facilities that directly impact the provision of service. For example, whether a station has the appropriately designated space for the protection of a victim’s identity which is particularly important for gender based crimes. These questions are linked to the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), the Tokyo Rules, Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power (Victims Declaration) and the UDHR.
Equal Treatment of the Public Without Bias Based on Gender, Ethnicity, Nationality, Minority Status, Age or Sexual Orientation
This section encourages visitors to assess the services available to vulnerable groups including the adequacy of facilities designed for women and disabled persons. The questions in this section ask about specific groups (both local and standardized groups) while also allowing visitors to make their own judgments about the station’s ability to serve all people, including those commonly discriminated against or disenfranchised. Special consideration is given to gender, age, ethnicity, language, and economic class. These questions specifically relate to Article 7 of CERD, the United Nations Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Code of Conduct, Victims Declaration and Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
Transparency and Accountability
This section targets a core component of good governance—the ability for citizens to access information. These questions seek to establish the readiness of the police to inform citizens of their rights, crime statistics, accept anonymous complaints against officers, etc. These questions ensure police stations provide the public the information needed to determine whether or not the police are satisfactorily fulfilling their duties of law enforcement, crime prevention and public safety. These are connected to the UDHR and ICCPR.
Detention Conditions
The core issue of this section is abiding by international human rights law. Questions in this section ask visitors to assess surveillance measures, movement of detainees, identification of detainees, meeting space for family and lawyers, and physical and sanitary conditions. These originate in Article 10 of the United Nations Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the United Nations Body of Principles for the Protection of all Persons Under any Form of Detention or Imprisonment, the ICCPR and UDHR.
For further information, please contact:
Kemi Asiwaju
Altus regional representative
CLEEN Foundation
Email:asiwaju@cleen.org
Tel.No.231-4933195, 234-1-7612479, 08052004590
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