GLOBAL DATABASE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLSCOUNTRY-PROFILEKYRGYZSTANMEASURESTRAINING PROGRAMME: "PREVENTION, DETECTION AND INVESTIGATION OF CRIMES INVOLVING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN"
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Training Programme: "Prevention, Detection and Investigation of Crimes involving Violence against Women"
Type of Measure
Services > Police > Training
Form of Violence
Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence; Child early and forced marriage; Violence against women and girls
Year
2002
Brief Description
Gender issues (including gender violence) were included in the training programme of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1996, and a special course entitled “Prevention, detection and investigation of crimes involving violence against women” in 2002.

The course "Prevention, detection and investigation of crimes involving violence against women", is being studied within the framework of the approved compulsory education curriculum; and training seminars and workshops are being held for current staff of internal affairs bodies on a compulsory basis, in accordance with the departmental plan for implementing the national plan of action approved by the Decree of the Minister of Internal Affairs.

The content of training programmes includes gender issues, the legislative, organizational and legal foundations for the work of internal affairs bodies to prevent domestic violence and violence against women, and various interactive teaching methods. The training covers physical (including sexual) violence, psychological abuse and culturally based violence (“bride theft”, etc.).

In 2008, 311 staff members of internal affairs bodies were trained and issued with certificates.

The special course held at the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is taught during the fourth year of training; and training seminars and workshops for internal affairs staff are held at least once every two years.

The training was funded by the Soros Kyrgyzstan Foundation in the amount of US$ 12,000 over the years 2002-2006.
Source of Information
Response of the government of the Republic of Kyrgyz to the questionnaire on violence against women, 2008
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