Madrid - May 6, 2005 - Today, Ambassador Christian Strohal, Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) joined the members of the NPSS Group international training team at the National Police Training Academy in Madrid, Spain in order to personally present the graduation certificates to all the senior staff of the Guardia Civil and the Police Nationale that successfully completed the Law Enforcement Officers Program for Combating Hate Crime.

 

This presentation follows the presentations that Ambassador Strohal made yesterday in Budapest with police executives having successfully completed NPSS Group led hate crimes training in that country as well.

 

Today, it is members of the national police services of Spain that are receiving their certificates for successfully completing the Law Enforcement Officers Program on Combating Hate Crimes in the OSCE Region.

 

The NPSS Group is proud and honored to have led this very important initiative for Spain's policing agencies:  the Guardia Civil and Police Nationale.

 

National Public Safety Strategies is an international dynamic consortium of experts in community safety, national security, government relations and civic affairs.  The NPSS Group provides services to governments around the globe, at the national, regional and local level, while assisting the private sector in the provisioning of services and supplies to meet governments’ needs.

 

For further information in this program, the Police Experts Meeting or the OSCE, please contact Mark Genatempo – Director, Strategic Services and Technical Division, National Public Safety Strategies at 1-609-924-2110.   

 

 

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