A/HRC/30/24 Burkina Faso, training on the rights of detainees is provided annually to prison guards. Burundi reported under the universal periodic review that human rights training sessions for prison officials had contributed to an improvement in the situation in prisons. 39. Human rights training for prison personnel also needs to be practical; Japan mentioned practice-based, on-the-job training programmes, including role-playing, that incorporated various events that occur on a daily basis in penal institutions. Morocco reported on practice drills relating to inspection, handcuffing, discipline and deportation, for example, and Greece mentioned prison visits, for example, for judicial police officers, including exchanges with detainees. In 2013, a national meeting aimed at strengthening the human rights competencies of penitentiary system public servants was held in Honduras. It focused on the responsibilities of the State and its representatives as guarantors of the human rights of persons deprived of their liberty. It was complemented by a series of regional and local workshops for prison staff. Portugal is engaged in a project to develop an e-learning tool for prison guards in countries in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America. The Prisons Service in Ghana has its own training manual, which has been incorporated into the training curriculum of prison officers. 40. The distinctive professional culture of law enforcement officers is shared across national boundaries and there are many examples of international and regional, bilateral and multilateral cooperation in this sector. Police officers in some small States (for example, Andorra and Guyana, based on their reports under the universal periodic review) benefit from training in partner States. The Regional Rights Resource Team of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community provides training for police officers from the Pacific Islands. The United Nations human rights training and documentation centre for South-West Asia and the Arab region, in cooperation with ICRC, has organized human rights workshops for police officers. Greece alluded to the range of courses offered by the European Police College. The Netherlands and Bulgaria operate bilateral exchanges of police officers and the Italian carabinieri are twinned with the Turkish gendarmerie. Ecuador signed agreements with the Dominican Republic and France on cooperation in relation to human rights training for prison staff in the new Training Academy that was opened in 2011. Chile now offers an international diploma course on “human rights and citizens’ security in the framework of policing”, which addresses such issues as the use of force. 41. Regional human rights mechanisms play a significant role in this sector. Law enforcement personnel in a number of States are taught about the international and regional dimensions of the protection of human rights, treaties and institutions. Frequent reference was made regional standards and case law in the field of human rights — in particular with respect to the European and Inter-American systems — and their application in the daily work of law enforcement and prison officers. Regional mechanisms also offer an abundant range of opportunities for cooperation, support and partnership. One example is the comprehensive human rights training strategy adopted by police schools in Chile, in association with the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights. 42. Cooperation and technical assistance for many of the programmes — with OHCHR, UNHCR, UNICEF, other United Nations entities, ICRC, the European Union, other regional organizations, international and national NGOs and national human rights institutions, as well as inter-State partnership — are abundant. Such cooperation helps to ensure coherence in the human rights training of the targeted professional groups and offers opportunities for keeping up to date with developments. A number of States requested further support in this area. 12