Police should be ‘largest human rights profession’, says QCEA
The Quaker Council for European Affairs has released a booklet about how policing should be framed
The Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) has released a new booklet arguing that policing should be reframed so it aspires to be ‘the largest human rights profession’ upholding the rights of everyone. In the booklet Framing Human Policing: Towards a more just public service QCEA makes the case that ‘twenty-first century policing should… be backed up by policies which emphasise the universal protections we all enjoy’.
Writing on the QCEA website, Martin Leng argues that, despite the fact that ‘European governments and institutions have framed policing in ways which align to the broader values of freedom, the rule of law and – crucially – human rights… many migrants and refugees in Europe find their human rights violated by police officers and private security personnel – the very people entrusted with guaranteeing these fundamental protections’.
The booklet offers examples of ‘what is possible when police take bottom-up steps to respect and uphold the human rights of people arriving in Europe.
‘Every act of kindness, every gesture of professionalism is an act of rehumanising treatment.’
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