Police Commissioner, Brigadier General Sitiveni Qiliho says it is clearly not true what Shamima Ali has said about human rights training, as far as the Fiji Police is concerned.
While speaking at a round table discussion on feminist struggles hosted by the French Ambassador, Fiji Women's Crisis Centre Coordinator and Human Rights Activist Shamima Ali had said that one of the fears about organisations like the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre is that people do not want them to teach human rights.
Ali says they are not allowed into the Police Academy where they previously had regular programs.
However Qiliho stresses that the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre has had human rights sessions with the Fiji Police Force through training sessions organized by the UNDP and UNOHCHR office for Fiji Police Force including sessions conducted by the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Commission.
The Commission says the Fiji Police Force has every right to engage any institution it deems as fit to conduct human rights training and a single NGO does not have a monopoly over the human rights agenda.
