Iraqi police begin human rights training programme

2012-06-13

The Iraqi Interior Ministry launched a national campaign Wednesday (June 13th) to train Iraqi police and counterterrorism units about human rights.

Col. Hikmat Mahmoud al-Masari, director of media for the ministry, told Al-Shorfa the campaign aims to ensure security personnel respect human rights laws and guidelines.

The campaign, launched in co-operation with the human rights ministry and several Iraqi universities and human rights organisations, began at police stations across the country and continues until mid-July, he said.

Security personnel will be trained in constitutional rights, both personal and public, as well as private property rights, he said

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امجد مهدي

2013-1-25

We support the movements of the Iraqi Ministry of Interior, because it has known the way to the renaissance of its people and observance of the highest conditions of the human rights. The Iraqi people need to know more about the principles of the human rights, which would make them more aware of what is happening around them everywhere in the world. Many peoples enjoy all the human rights and no one dares to violate them. Hence, all what the Ministry of Interior has to do is to begin an intensive training program to train the policemen on how to preserve human rights. This may be the way to make Iraq free from the human rights violations that may affect its great people. The Iraqi people have suffered enough throughout its history and the government must compensate the people for all what they missed.
محمد صدام

2013-1-25

This is a good step taken by the Iraqi police and we really wish that such step will alter the demeanor of the police officers. Although we receive a somewhat bad treatment from police officers, but we really don’t want to talk about that since what police officers themselves face with terrorism is bad enough for them. This is particularly true since the police have the right to have suspicion in anyone and conduct examination and investigation, all for the sake of safeguarding Iraq’s security. This training could have possibly taught the officers how to differentiate between terrorists and decent Iraqi citizens. In my opinion, mutual respect and good treatment is sufficient enough to establish amiability between police officers and Iraqi citizens.