This handbook aims to provide the educational content that will serve as the basis for in-service training and as the supplement to basic and specialist training courses that already include lessons in police ethics. It is designed as a kind of tool and guide that will enable police officers to enhance and improve their professional, ethical and law-based conduct.
This brochure intends to make a distinction between freedom of expression and hate speech, both from a terminology and a legal point of view, as well as to differentiate them from other related concepts, such as defamation and insult.
These guidelines, developed by the Armenian Police in the co-operation with the OSCE Office in Yerevan, define the general context and legislative framework, general principles of use of force, special means and firearms and outlines the responsibilities of police and procedural requirements