Royal Thai Police partner with UNDP to promote key role of police in harm reduction.
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Recognizing the critical role of law enforcement agencies in the HIV response, UNDP Thailand is scaling up an innovative learning programme in partnership with the Royal Thai Police. The new programme, known as the ‘Thai Police as Key Change Agents: The Innovative Learning Programme on HIV and Human Rights in the Context of Law Enforcement’, will sensitize law enforcement officers to issues concerning human rights and stigma and discrimination of people living with HIV (PLHIV) and key affected populations (KAPs), as well as general knowledge of modes of transmission and HIV prevention.
The innovative programme builds upon an initiative started in mid 2012 between the Royal Thai Police, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Public Health, Foundation for AIDS Rights and UNDP, which focuses on educating junior police cadets. The scaled-up programme will target higher level police officers; a key factor in ensuring sustainable integration into the police training curriculum and law enforcement practices going forward in Thailand.
Considerable achievements have been made since the programme’s inauguration, including:
- Signing of a Partnership Declaration between the Royal Thai Police, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Public Health, Foundation for AIDS Rights and UNDP.
- Integration of the HIV-related anti-stigma and discrimination and human rights protection curriculum into the existing human rights training module provided to all junior police cadets.
- Training of 40 police trainers of junior police cadets.
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For more information, contact Khemtip Khemsaksit ( khemtip.khemsaksit@undp.org ), HIV/AIDS Programme Analyst, UNDP Thailand.
