Communities, governments, and police officers themselves have called for reform and professionalisation through increased accountability, legitimacy and evidence-based policing in order to meet contemporary community needs.
The course aims at developing the competencies of the participants to support their home governments in adopting drug policies which are underpinned by public health and citizen security, anchored in evidence-based harm reduction approaches and backed by laws or practices that are human rights-compliant.
Amid criticisms from NGOs and the UN, the senate committee on public order and dangerous drugs has told the Department of Health to suspend the distribution of syringes to drug users.
Most drug offences for which the death penalty is applied in national courts cannot be ‘most serious crimes’ under international human rights law as they are not even ‘particularly serious’ crime under international drug control law.
According to Mr. Ivanov, 200,000 drug users are charged with administrative and criminal charges each year, and redirecting these individuals into treatment will help the overall situation with drug use in the country.
Indonesia' recent executions of drug offenders was based on data according to which drugs kill at least 40 people a day. Researchers have questioned the reliability of these figures.
The UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice has just adopted the revised rules, which are more in line with international norms for the protection of human rights.
Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan highlighted the need to regulate drugs in order to better protect health at the 68th edition of the World Health Assembly.