A/HRC/21/20 37. German law enforcement personnel receive regular in-service training in which international human rights law plays an integral part, in particular the Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials. The Ministry of Justice of Japan includes human rights protection and issues of trafficking in human beings in training programmes for the Immigration Bureau officers. The main pillar of the basic codes of professional ethics for the police in Japan is respect for human rights. Newly recruited police officers attend related lectures. 38. In Mauritius, human rights is essential in training police and prisons officers. In Monaco, the training of recruits to the Police Academy includes a programme on respect for human rights and physical integrity of human beings in all circumstances. The Human Rights Section in the Ministry of the Interior and Municipalities of Lebanon aims to prevent human rights violations by Internal Security Forces officials in Lebanon and raise awareness of human rights concepts through training; a working group recently drafted, in consultation with OHCHR, a code of conduct for the Internal Security Forces. 39. The Human Rights Department of the Chilean National Police was established in 2011 to promote international standards for the police. Since 2012, the International Committee of the Red Cross has supported the police in integrating international human rights standards for policing into their training programmes, including training of trainers. The Ecuadorian police’s comprehensive continuing professional development programme is delivered by 126 human rights trainers from the Human Rights Department of the National Police’s National Directorate for Education. The programme reaches the entire police force, with 600 officers trained weekly. 40. Human rights have been part of regular in-service training curricula in the National Police Agency and Ministry of Justice in the Republic of Korea since 2003. At the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences, human rights are a subject in the curriculum for correctional officers, border guards and the police. The Algerian Police Academy provides human rights training to law enforcement agents of the National Security Directorate and the gendarmerie nationale. 41. A training centre within the Ministry of Justice of Serbia conducts regular human rights training programmes for security service employees and judicial wardens and has expanded to training trainers and heads of penal institutions and departments. The Centre for Specialized Training and Professional Development of the Ministry of the Interior has organized seminars on preventing harassment in the workplace. Training for police officers on the treatment of juveniles is mandatory. The Ministry has also implemented training programmes on human trafficking, in cooperation with United Nations agencies. In the Sudan, the Training Department of the Ministry of Justice and the Advisory Council for Human Rights provide training on administration of justice to police and security officers, among others. The syllabuses of police and security colleges include human rights law. 42. Reported recurring themes covered by initial and in-service training are human rights in policing, applicable international and regional human rights law, use of force and firearms, rules on detention and treatment of prisoners, torture, non-discrimination, trafficking, professional ethics and intercultural competence. Croatia’s Police Academy offers a compulsory subject entitled “Police authorities and human rights”. The curricula of police academies in Azerbaijan and Slovenia include human rights as a stand-alone subject. In Azerbaijan, a teaching aid on police and human rights was prepared by the pedagogical staff of the Police Academy with OHCHR assistance. In Bulgaria, the Academy of the Ministry of the Interior teaches human rights to staff as part of the initial and in-service professional training. Human rights training is mandatory for all Ministry staff officially authorized to carry a firearm. A separate distance-learning course on police close to society is also available to the Ministry staff. 11