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KATHMANDU, Oct 23: Altus Global Alliance (AGA), an grouping of six criminal justice reform organizations from Brazil, Chile, India, Nigeria, Russia and the United States, is organizing a Police Stations Visitors Week (PSVW) in Nepal starting October 26.
Conflict Study Center, the local partner of AGA, is organizing the PSWV at 10 various police stations in Kathmandu Valley including Balaju, Boudhha, Bhaktapur, Gaushala, Hanumandhoka, Kalimati, Lalitpur, Maharajgunj, New Baneshwor and Singha Durbar.
A small team of residents will visit the police stations to produce comparable scores on five dimensions of police service including community orientation, physical condition of the police stations, equal treatment to the public, condition of detention centers, transparence and accountability.
The scores generated by the visitors during PSVW would allow Altus to identify examples of good practices nationally, regionally and globally, while allowing local non-government organizations and citizens to engage police personnel in their areas to improve the latter´s service delivery.
According to CSC president Bishnu Pathak, the objective of PSVW is to improve the quality of local police service by identifying some of the good practices of police in various countries of the world. Apart from Nepal, PSVW is being organized in Brazil, Chile, Peru, United States, Albania, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Malyasia, India, Pakisatan and Sri Lanka.
The PSWV aims at assembling a body of comparative criminal justice reform research and practice that can both support local reforms and guide the relationship between domestic criminal justice systems and their international counterparts through collaborative efforts of its members and other international partners.
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