E/CN.4/1996/72/Add.2 page 30 In 1992 some complaints were voiced concerning the late arrival or improper behaviour of policemen in response to emergency calls; those cases have not yet been fully elucidated. 28. The first suggestions regarding a new concept for the Berlin police have been worked out by the interdepartmental committee on “Berlin against violence” with reference to the treatment of ethnic and cultural minorities. They lay stress on continuing training and education, on contact between the police and minority organizations, on targeted publicity and on opening of the police force to employment of ethnic minorities, together with the appointment of a commissioner for aliens within the force. 29. Under the project “For non-violent intercultural understanding” it is planned to systematize the listing of complaints of racial discrimination, with the attendant circumstances, so as to be able to present at least a fairly general conspectus of proven cases of discrimination. Notes 1.Amnesty International, Federal Republic of Germany. police ill-treatment of foreigners, May 1995. Failed by the system: 2.Pseudo-asylum-seekers are described as economic refugees and lumped together with de facto immigrants; this leads to a certain confusion between immigration and the right to asylum in official statements. 3.Hubert Willems, Stefanie Würts, Roland Eckert, “La violence xénophobe: une analyse des structures des coupables et des processus présidant á l'escalade de la violence”, report submitted to the Federal Ministry for Women and Youth and the German Science Fund, June 1993; published in Nouveaux dossiers sur la xénophobie en Allemagne”, p. 104. 4.Federal Government Press and Information Office; Nouveaux dossiers sur la xénophobie en Allemagne. Faits, analyses, arguments, Bonn, 1 July 1993, p. 11. 5.It will be noted that the term rightist extremism is preferred to Fascist or racist activities. 6.The information in this paragraph comes from a communication by the Federal Ministry of the Interior entitled “Report on the strength and membership of organizations under observation in 1994 by the authorities responsible for upholding the Constitution for rightist extremist activities, and on breaches of the law presumably or demonstrably motivated by rightist extremism or xenophobia”, dated 19 September 1995. 7.Federal Government Press and Information Office: Report on the status of foreigners in Germany. Xenophobia: facts, analysis, arguments, Bonn, January 1995. 8.The statistics in this chapter come from the communication by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, op. cit. 9.The Nationalistische Front (NF), Deutsche Alternative (DA), Nationale Offensive (NO), Wiking-Jugend (WJ), Freiheitliche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (FAP).