"Police and Citizenship"

Albanian Center for Human Rights, ACHR, has completed the new publication, "Police and Citizenship", by Arqile Kosta, Arben Nasufi, Nikoll Rica and Bajram Yzeiri. This publication of 255 pages aims to raise the citizen's awareness in respecting the law. To collaborate with the State Police and contribute in securing individual and social security and public order in general. The book also helps the police officers that have the responsibility to prevent transgressions, investigate crime, strengthen the relation with the public, implement community policing, and manage different structures of State Police.

It is a practical manual, with a simple and understandable language, easily used by the police structures and the public. From one chapter to the other the reader finds special aspects of this field, as the basic practices and principles of preservation of order and public security in the field of preservation and respecting the Human Rights in the police activities, in the war against crime and the respecting the law, always based on universal principles of democratic policing and rule of law.

The publication was financed by FRESTA, in the frame of Balkan Human Right Network program.

"Citizenship and Police"

Is the title of the booklet recently published by the Albanian Center of Human Rights, ACHR, written by Shkëlqim Saço, Piro Lazi and Shpëtim Mezini, financially supported by FRESTA. This booklet aims to contribute in improving the communication, interaction and the mutual respect between citizens and police.

In the first chapter "The interaction of citizens and police", are treated some basic questions to refresh the readers knowledge that police is a public agency and service, that its activity contains confusion and dilemmas, that policing is a complex activity and that the police service is difficult but not impossible, etc.

In the second chapter "Police contact with citizen" are given practical guidelines in exercising the rights of a police officer, accompanied by the citizen's reaction. E.g. in situations when information about transgressions is asked, in situations of fees, when the citizens identity is being verified, when physical control is exercised, when the citizen is convoked in the police station.

Using the saying "The good word opens the steel gate", in the third chapter are treated aspects of polite communication between police officers and citizens, while in the fourth chapter is given some useful information in the cases when the citizen asks for help or when they have complains about their work.

These books are part of a series of publications previously realized by ACHR in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Order, and we can mention: "Human Rights and Police", "Legislation for State Police", "ABC of policing", etc.