Responding to accounts of police brutality and human rights violations, Forum-Asia promotes community policing in Thailand by providing training to Thailand’s Royal Police Force through a computer-based training. The specialized training program, supported by the leadership in the RPF, tactically focuses on practical behavioral skills and professionalism to promote human rights in policing. Their goal is to improve the conduct of police officers to conform to international human rights standards, and to promote a community-oriented perspective on policing, accountability, and transparence, as well as to establish a long-term relationship with the community. While human rights based training has been ineffective in the past due to a number of reasons including the fact that it has been mainly theoretical in nature, has been based on the perspective of civil society as opposed to the police, and has not been incorporated into practical training, the program focuses on practical behavioral skills and professionalism that meet the needs of the police officers while promoting human rights.

For a detailed exploration of this tactic, please click on the following link to consult our tactical notebook, <b><a href="http://www.newtactics.org/en/PoliceTraining">Police Training: Opening the door for professional and community-oriented policing</a></b> by Dr. Arie Bloed.