Introduction
This report is part of the seminar on “Damage Reduction Policing, which took place on November 16, 2020 at Hotel Polana in order to provide sufficient capacity to police systems so that they are able to meet the needs health people who use drugs (PUDs), and at the same time reinforcing the police mission of protection, security, integrity, order and individual public rights. As global objectives, the seminar foresaw, among others, to ensure that the police can contribute to the adoption of more humanized practices and that lead to harm reduction policing that involves communities in a process of building trust.
And in this context that ACAM, MOZ-PUD, in collaboration with CNCS, supported the Police Command of the City of Maputo to organize the Reflection Seminar of the Police Operative Sector in relation to how to do policing with harm reduction and to involve them focus more on the Actions foreseen in the harm reduction strategies in Mozambique.
The seminar was attended by several personalities and representatives from police authorities of the Maputo City PRM, representatives of associations and institutions such as GCPCD, CNCS, MOZ-PUD, MSF, ACAM, UNUDO, SERNIC, FHI 360 and FrontLine AIDS. As expected results, it was expected to see an improvement in the Police’s level of knowledge in relation to harm reduction programs, such as the public health and Human Rights approach directed at People who use Drugs (PUD) and to know the police’s priorities. to be incorporated into the Country Harm Reduction Strategy (2021-2023).
For the accomplishment and success of this seminar, the Police Command of the City of Maputo, in collaboration with the Department of Studies and Planning of the General Command of PRM and CNCS, organized the meeting with the Police agents (Police stations in the areas affected by the problem of sale and consumption of drugs), to jointly find some harm reduction intervention strategies. The training started at around 8:30 am, covered Commanders and Heads of Operations at Squadrons and PowerPoint presentations, group work and plenary discussion were used.
ACAM will organize two more seminars in the cities of Beira and Nampula, on 14-15 and 17-18 December.