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UK: Britain Is Making Millions Training Police In 21 Countries That Use The Death Penalty

11 April 2016

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"Britain’s College of Policing, the professional body for police training, has made millions of pounds in the last three years by training forces in countries that use the death penalty.

Among the countries where the college offers training in “leadership, forensics and intelligence” are Bahrain, China, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Uganda. In all, 21 of the countries where the college operates training programmes have the death penalty. Yesterday Amnesty International revealed that executions worldwide are at a 25-year-high, with at least 158 people killed in 2015 in Saudi Arabia alone.

At least 25 of the countries in which the college operates have forces that have been accused by campaigners of human rights abuses and torture."

See the article: Britain Is Making Millions Training Police In 21 Countries That Use The Death Penalty (BuzzFeed, link)

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