HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED POLICING -comprehensive, systematic, and institutional
HUMAN RIGHT adherence to national or domestic laws on human
- refers to the basic rights and freedoms that rights
all human beings have. -policing that defines the relationship between the
- right to life and liberty individual citizens whose rights have to be
CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL BASES OF HUMAN protected by the police.
RIGHTS PROTRCTION CHARACTERISTICS OF HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED
1. ARTICLE 2 SEC. 4-5 – gov’t exists to maintain POLICING
peace and order, protect life, liberty and 1. Strict Observance of Police Operational
property, promote general welfare of the Procedure (POP)
people 2. Adherence to National/Domestic and
2. ARTICLE 2 SEC. 10-11- promoting social International Laws, Treaties, Standards, and
justice and recognizes the value of human Protocols on Human Rights
dignity and respect for human rights. 3. Professional Competence and Courteous
3. ARTICLE 2 SEC. 22 – promotes the rights of Service
indigenous cultural communities 4. Respect for the rule of Law and Civilian
4. ARTICLE 3 SEC. 1-22 – promotes and Supremacy
protects the rights of all citizens as defined 5. Pro-Democracy and Pro-Citizen
in the BILL OF RIGHTS. PNP AND ITS HUMAN RIGHTS OBLIGATIONS
5. ARTICLE 13 SEC. 1 – protect and enhance 1. To respect Human Rights
the rights of all the people to human 2. To protect Human Rights
dignity, reduce social, economic and 3. To fulfill human rights
political inequalities. PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN RIGHTS
6. ARTICLE 15 SEC. 3 – right of children to P-Participation
assistance and special protection. A-Accountability
7. RA 4738 – N-Non-Discrimination
8. RA 9262 – Anti Violence Against Women T-Transparency
and Children H-Human Dignity
9. RA 9344 – Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act E-Empowerment
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIES, R-Rule of Law
CONVENTIONS, AND PROTOCOLS
Universal Declaration on Human Rights of
1948 by the United Nations General
Assembly
International Covenant on civil and political
rights
Optional protocol to the Covenant on civil
and political rights
International Covenant on economic, social
and cultural rights
U.N. Convention on the Condition of the
Wounded and Sick in Armed Conflict(the
first Geneva Convention)
Convention Against Homicide (CAH)
Convention Against Torture (CAT)
Convention on Elimination of Discrimination
Against Women (CEDAW)
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
HUMAN RIGHT-BASED POLICING (HRBP)