These are again sage recommendations, and should be required actions by
all state parties. Yet it's only once we look closely at some of the issues
that we realize the challenges at hand.
Again, example from India, on representative police forces and inclusive
law enforcement:
Police forces inspire little trust among the poor and minorities especially.
This is a result of the long history of unprofessional and mostly
prejudiced working of the police, that various official commissions of
enquiry into minority violence themselves point to. The reasons are not far
to see. Police forces (and the bureaucracy generally) have very poor
representation of Muslims: 3.2% in central security forces, and 4% in the
national police service, for a group that constitutes 14% of the population
nationally. As a result police forces are hardly seen by minorities as their
protectors.
8.1 My suggestions here would be to add the following observations:
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Encourage state parties to set targets and timeframes for better
representation for minorities in police/security forces and
bureaucracies; and track and document progress, and
publish those.
Encourage state parties to develop complaints redressal
procedures, and establish Ombudsmen bodies, towards ensuring
accountability of police/security agencies
State agencies responsible for providing early warning and risk
assessment, need to have the tools and capacities, and crucially
the autonomy and will, to apply those tools objectively, to warn
and counter the risk of violence.
Create civil society capacity to monitor working of law
enforcement and the criminal justice system on atrocity crimes