Stay up to date with our Resources page which includes access to our e-News archive, key advocacy tools (check out the video of LEAHN Country Focal Points) and a list of high profile supporters for the LEAHN Statement of Support plus a bunch of other useful documents and links.
If you have any links, documents or information on law enforcement and harm reduction please send them to leahn@leahn.org and we will share them with our network.
Scroll down or use the links below to explore this resources page:
- LEAHN eNews archive
- Law enforcement and harm reduction advocacy materials
- Law enforcement and harm reduction training materials, policies and guidelines
- Key LEAHN presentations
- Dissertations on policing, HIV and harm reduction approaches
- Fact sheets and reports
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GLEPHA was formed in 2017 because law enforcement, especially through the activities of police forces, has a crucial but largely unacknowledged role in the protection and promotion of the public health. While police are key partners in many specific public health programs, their identity as an important part of the public health endeavour is rarely recognised. This means that there is a generally an inadequate approach to research and investigation of ways in which law enforcement, especially police, can be most effectively engaged and be most effective in carrying out their public health role.
LEAHN consultations
LEAHN has convened a number of international consultations on law enforcement, harm reduction, public health and drug law reform (held in conjunction with the Law Enforcement & Public Health conference series). The consultations bring together law enforcement officers, health professionals, service providers, service users, civil society, researchers and government representatives to share knowledge and best practices.
Read more about LEAHN consultations here
LEAHN eNews archive
- November 2013
- January 2014
- February 2014
- April 2014
- July 2014
- September 2014
- December 2014
- March 2015
- May 2015
- July 2015
- October 2015
- February 2016
- September 2016
Advocacy materials
- Statement of Support for Harm Reduction by Law Enforcement Officers (Sign it here)
- LEAHN Principles on policing public health and vulnerable populations (Output from the Amsterdam Consultation 2016)
- List of key supporters of the LEAHN Statement of Support for Harm Reduction by Law Enforcement Agents (2012-present)
Key LEAHN presentations
- LEAHN: Growing police support for HIV prevention, 13th UN Crime Congress, Doha, 2015, (LEAHN Director, Professor Nick Crofts)
- Vietnamese Delegation Presentation 2010; Vietnamese police embark on a study tour of Melbourne to learn more about harm reduction and the role of police in public health (Dr Nick Thomson)
- Arresting HIV Police and Civil Society Partnerships – Presentation April 2012, Cambodia (Dr Nick Thomson)
Training materials, policies and guidelines
- New publication of ‘Guidelines for police working with Drug Consumption Rooms’ from LEAHN Consultation, Toronto 2018
- National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund (NDLERF) The role of police in preventing and minimising illicit drug use and its harms 2004
Supervised Injecting Facilities & Drug Consumption Rooms: Overview of international literature, Uniting Medically Supervised Injection Centre, Kings Cross, August 2017 - Methodological Guidelines for Police Intervention to Prevent and Control HIV Infection Among Most-At-Risk Populations, Republic of Moldova 2015
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: Training manual for law enforcement officials on HIV service provision for people who inject drugs 2014
- Police Sensitisation Training Manual: A Guide for South African Police Service (SAPS) Officers to the Rights of Sex workers and the LGBTI Community 2014. (Including Trainers Guide)
- UNAIDS: Guidance for joint UN teams on engaging uniformed services in AIDS responses in Asia Pacific 2013
- WHO: Consolidated guidelines on HIV prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care for key populations 2014
- PSI Standard Operating Procedures to Improve Community-Level Collaboration with Law Enforcement 2012
- North Carolina Law Enforcement Guide to Needlestick Prevention and Public Safety
- The California Department of Public Health has some useful resources for law enforcement on needle stick injuries and Needle and Syringe Programs. Click here to download some material
- Excellent training package from Harm Reduction Coalition USA – includes interviews with police, power point presentations, curriculum
- DCAM Law Enforcement Training Guide (Australia)
- DCAM Law Enforcement Guidance (Australia)
- Needle exchange programs & policing – working together
- Guidelines for addressing police concerns about harm reduction
- Police policies and practices supporting harm reduction
- HR awareness training in Afghanistan
- http://lawsandpolicies.unaids.org/
Dissertations on policing, HIV and harm reduction approaches
- Between care and order Street-level workers, discretion and drug policies in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and Porto Alegre (Brazil). By Rafaela de Quadros Rigoni 2015
- Harm reduction and law enforcement in Vietnam: influences on street policing. By Melissa Jardine 2013
- Exploring discourses and actions of ‘othering’ homosexual citizens by officers of the Zambia Police service in Lusaka, Zambia. By Sefuka Pierre 2013
- Policing and public health: experiences of people who inject drugs in Bangkok, Thailand. By Kanna Hayashi 2013
Fact sheets and reports
- Lessons Learned. The South African Police Service’s Dignity, Diversity And Policing Project: The Promotion And Protection Of Human Rights, Dignity And Safety For All.
- Prevention of Drug-related Crime Report – International Centre for the Prevention of Crime 2015
- People Who Inject Drugs and HIV UNAIDS 2014
- Sexual transmission of HIV
- Fact sheets – countries
- HIV testing and human rights
- Harm Reduction – from a Conceptual Framework to Practical Experience – The Example of Germany
- PowerPoint presentation: Thomas Zosel, Chief Detective & Liaison Officer Frankfurt Police: Model for co-operation between Organisation and Police to drug related problems
- Beletsky et al (2011) Police Training to Align Law Enforcement and HIV Prevention: Preliminary Evidence from the Field
- Law Enforcement and HR – Aust – 2002: Jonathan P. Caulkins – Carnegie Mellon University, H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management RAND, Drug Policy Research Centre
- International Harm Reduction Association’s 50 best articles on harm reduction, including policing & harm reduction
- Harm reduction & law enforement: annotated bibliogray – Excellent resource summarizing relevant articles and publications
- Fact sheet on harm reduction
- Harm reduction explained
- From Coercion to Cohesion: Treating Drug Dependence Through Health Care not Punishment
http://www.unodc.org/docs/treatment/Coercion_Ebook.pdf - Harm Reduction – from a Conceptual Framework to Practical Experience – The Example of Germany
- Report on human rights violations by police against sex workers in South Africa 2012
Australasia, UK, Canada
- Sydney’s Medically Supervised Injecting Room
- NSW Police Service – initiatives and programs
- Law Enforcement & Drugs – Australian Institute of Criminology
- Effect of drug law enforcement on drug market violence: A systematic review 2011 article examined worldwide studies and found that drug prohibition/law enforcement can contribute to high levels of violence, including homicide
- The public health and social impacts of drug market enforcement – a review of the evidence: Canadian article (2005)
Central Asia
PowerPoint presentations (LEAHN’s Alex Zelitchenko)
- Washington AIDS Conference July 2012
- Law enforcement and HR in practice
- Instructions for police – HIV prevention
- How to improve law enforcement knowledge about HIV (updated)
- Harm Reduction Definitions
- On the Road to “H”: Narcotic Drugs in Central Asia: By Alisher Latypov
- Friendly Policeman Project for HIV prevention in Kyrgyzstan
- The Cost Effectiveness of Expanding Harm Reduction Activities for Injecting Drug Users in Odessa, Ukraine Vickerman et al (2006)
- The impact of an HIV prevention intervention among injecting drug users in Belarus: Vickerman & Watts (2002) International Journal of Drug Policy (2002)
- Central Asia Drug Action Programme – CADAP-5
- Harm reduction in Russia
- Third Force article June-2011 An overiew of the the role of narcotics in the Osh tragedy, authored by the coordinator of the Russian LEAHRN website, Alexander Zelitchenko
- FSU Immigrants and Drug Problems – 5 June 2012
South East Asia
Programs working with police:
- Sleeping with the Enemy? Harm reduction and law enforcement in prevention of HIV among and from injecting drug user in Asia
- Report Police Workshop August 3 reviewed final – Excellent overview of UNAIDS police/public health workshop held in Bangkok, 2009
Occupational exposure
USA
- Jen Earls – Needlestick Article 21[1]
- Fact sheet – Syringe Exchange-11[1]
- Bob Scott Letter V2[1]
- Jen Earls – Needlestick Article 2[1]
- Law Enforcemet Guide 7-2[1]
- Fact sheet – Syringe Exchange
- Public safety and syringe exchange May 2011 *NEW! Fact sheet outlining the benefits of syringe exchange for police
- Risks of the Job – Video Part 1
- Risks of the Job – Video Part 2
View presentations from LEAHN’s Professor Nick Crofts
