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Kinds of Human Rights Violations Should Police be Especially Concerned About?

Genocide

○Acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group. It includes:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or on part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Torture

○Any act committed with intent to cause severe pain or suffering, mental or physical, for the purpose of:

(a) Obtaining information or a confession;

(b) Punishing, intimidating or coercing.

Enforced or involuntary disappearance

○Arrest, detention, abduction or other deprivation of liberty by the Government or its agents, or with their complicity, tolerance or acquiescence, where the fate or whereabouts of the victim is not disclosed or cus- tody is not confirmed.

Extralegal, arbitrary or summary executions

○Deprivation of life without full judicial and legal process, and with the involvement, complicity, tolerance or acquiescence of the Government or its agents. Includes death through the excessive use of force by police or security forces.