NIHR Participates in the Royal Police Academy Programme on the Role of Public Security Forces in ensuring Safety and Security of the Electoral Process
The National institution for Human Rights (NIHR), represented by Dr. Bader Mohamed Adel, Member of the NIHR Council of Commissioners, has participated in the training programme organized by the Royal Police Academy for several officers of the Ministry of Interior, entitled “The Role of Public Security Forces in ensuring Safety and Security of the Electoral Process”.
During the event, which lasted for two consecutive days, Dr. Bader Mohamed Adel presented an explanation on the NIHR’s role in observing the electoral process, in which he touched on the legal basis for the NIHR’s observation of the electoral process and its experience in this field, as well as the legal basis of the electoral process in general in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
The programme also contained important themes in ensuring the safety and security of the electoral process, including the administrative organization of the electoral process from advertising to the announcement of the election results, the role of security men in electoral committees, Bahrain’s electoral experience in the democratic field, the environment of the electoral process in Bahrain, simulation scenarios on an Elections Committee and the common mistakes therein, guidelines for the electoral process, guarantees and standards for the electoral environment, the inclusion of women’s needs in the stages of monitoring and controlling the security and safety of the electoral process, and the role of the NIHR in the elections.
