A/HRC/45/24 E. Law enforcement officials 34. Human rights training for law enforcement officials, including the integration of human rights into the curricula of related pre-service and in-service training, is widely reported. Costa Rica, Greece and Qatar reported that their police academies had integrated human rights into the curricula. In Georgia, the curricula at the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs include at least 32 human rights teaching hours. In El Salvador, the National Civil Police adopted an institutional human rights policy focused, among other things, on human rights training, curriculum revision and improvements in staff selection for the National Academy of Public Security. The Human Rights Unit of the National Civil Police also regularly organizes human rights training sessions. In Cyprus, the Ministry of Justice and Public Order undertook measures to ensure in-service human rights training for all law enforcement officials, including police officers, judges, prosecutors, prison staff, social service staff and officers reviewing the eligibility of asylum applications. New modules on human rights have been incorporated into training for police recruits at the police academy following the signing of a training cooperation agreement between the Cyprus Police and the University of Cyprus. In Spain, modules on human rights topics are integrated into courses for national police personnel, which are a requirement for promotion to higher ranks. In September 2019, the national police established its national human rights office, whose functions include promoting and coordinating human rights training programmes for police personnel. 35. Some responding States highlighted training efforts on specific human rights issues. The Niger reported that human rights training of law enforcement officials encourages them to respect, protect and defend human rights without distinction as to race, skin colour or ethnicity. Sweden reported training activities related to combating racism and hate crimes. Since 2015, the Living History Forum has been carrying out a major education initiative for public officials, including the Swedish Police Authority, on racism, through both face-toface and online training. Training on combating hate crimes is also a compulsory element in the basic training for new police officers. The Swedish Police Authority has also commissioned a training course from Uppsala University that provides in-depth knowledge of the underlying causes of racism, hate crimes and crimes that threaten freedom of opinion. In 2019, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia signed a memorandum of understanding with the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights to establish a training course on combating hate crimes for law enforcement, a training of trainers programme developed with the involvement of members of the Office of the Prosecutor and the Office of the Public Defender and representatives of non-governmental organizations. In Italy, the Central Directorate for Police Training under the Department of Public Security has focused on training in human rights protection and the prevention and combating of discriminatory acts. Efforts are currently under way to revise the training curricula to incorporate more modules on human rights, which are to be made available for personnel of the national police and the Carabinieri through an interforces e-learning platform. Some modules focused on human rights in general are developed in partnership with Amnesty International Italy and those focused on topics pertaining to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons are developed in partnership with the Lenford Network. 36. Some States have reported human rights training initiatives for prison officials. In 2015, the Niger organized several such training courses, including for prison medical staff, in the cities of Kollo, Tahoua and Zinder, in order to enhance the promotion and protection of human rights in prisons. In Italy, the penitentiary administration provides in-service training to staff of every rank on, among other things, the protection of the rights of persons deprived of their liberty. In Spain, the General Secretariat for Penitentiary Institutions has been carrying out human rights training annually for the personnel of penitentiary institutions, using the methodology developed by OHCHR. In Costa Rica, the Ministry of Justice and Peace held human rights training courses at the prison training school, with particular emphasis placed on populations in heightened situations of vulnerability in the prison, such as people of African descent, indigenous people, people with disabilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people; during the period 2018–2019, 3,769 prison officials participated in those courses. In 2018, the Ministry of Law and Human Rights of Indonesia developed a human rights handbook for correctional officers and immigration detention officers. Qatar has also published various human rights training 11