Overview:
Ulasi Police is an awareness and advocacy campaign launched by the Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) – as part of USAID Small Grants and Ambassadors’ Fund Program, Pakistan – to strengthen rule of law in KP province by promoting and disseminating various police reforms that incorporate local communities’ policing needs and international human rights standards. The endeavor aims to enhance public’ trust in police and dialogue on the policing needs of local communities to help KP police become an accountable and community-focused police force. This will primarily be achieved through broadcast media engagement for radio and TV advocacy campaigns to promote KP Polices’ reforms as to how they will guarantee and impact fundamental human rights as enshrined in the constitution and peoples’ right to due process, and to highlight significant steps taken by the KP Police aimed at incorporating local community’s policing needs to address widening trust deficit.
Enhancing linkages between the local communities and police – which would be achieved through dialogue on the policing needs of local communities with a particular focus on minorities, women, and other marginalized groups – would be crucial part of the intervention aimed at reducing gaps between the public needs and polices’ services on offer.
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