The Council of Europe manual “Policing Hate Crime against LGBTI persons: Training for a Professional Police Response” has been adapted in Albanian, under the joint European Union and Council of Europe Action on “Promotion of Diversity and Equality in Albania” part of the Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey 2019-2022. The manual is designed as a practical tool for police trainers, investigators, managers, hate crime officers and frontline police officers to efficiently respond to hate crime.
A number of events to launch the manual were organised and 400 manuals were already distributed to the Albanian Police Academy and Faculty of Security, General Police Directory and various police stations in Tirana. A total of 1000 copies of the manual will be distributed in police stations all around Albania. The manual should help Albanian police officers in developing essential skills to identify and investigate hate crimes against LGBTI persons.
