This webinar explores opportunities to reframe policing in the context of

systemic safety, as a transversal set of mandates.

Law Enforcement cannot alone achieve safety; many risk factors that

drive unsafety have no link to the mandates or capabilities of law

enforcement and cannot be resolved by arrest, detention and deterrence.

COVID-19 and it’s coercive strategies have spotlighted and exacerbated

pre-existing limitations on policing itself.

Key issues for discussion:

• The importance of partnership for policing and what this means in

practice

• Building the right design into being prepared.

Key themes:

• Human Rights as a framework for prevention; critical redress

mechanisms, and protective measures.

• The importance of policing and police-public health partnerships in

complex issues with health, criminal justice and social justice impacts,

• Implications of these responses.

Case study:

• Protest against policing in Nigeria: 20 October 2020 massacre of

protesters at the Lekki Toll Plaza.

Reflections:

• Policing and SDGs 2030.

• Policing, police accountability, crime prevention, and peace building.

• Circumstances in which it’s appropriate for police to enforce public

health regulations

• Engagement of communities to maximize voluntary compliance.

20 January 2021

4 - 6pm Johannesburg / 7:30 - 9:30pm Delhi

3 - 5pm Vienna / 9 - 11am New York

To register: https://crimealliance.org/events/view.php?id=64

Read more regarding this webinar here.