March 5, 2024.- On February 28, the sixth session of the CISDO Project was held in units of the Provincial Commissariat attended by organizations responsible for hosting the most vulnerable groups against hate crimes.
For six months now, FFCCSS has been working together with third-sector organizations to reach agreements and improve both the prevention, sensitization and investigation of hate crimes.
The final objective is to present during the week of July 22, the European day against hate crimes, the works carried out by the community of practices, which will be aimed at raising awareness in society about the victimizers and victims of hate crimes and their consequences.
The community works to constitute a “local coordination table”, which will remain in time, formed by experts who exchange information on events of special relevance or social scope, produce a “video that sensitizes the population” and propose “legislative reforms that improve the processes of denunciation and approach to victims”.
The community of practices also intends to involve all public and/or private organizations and bodies that wish to participate in order to highlight the understatement of these discriminatory situations suffered by the victims of hatred.
Organizations such as ASPACE, ACCEM, CEPAIM, Red Cross, Caritas, Salamanca Welcomes, Secretariado Gitano, La ONCE, EQUALS, together with the Municipal Police of Salamanca and the Civil Guard of the Command of Salamanca form a Community of Practices called “COPRA SALAMANCA”, led by the National Police of Salamanca within the European Project CISDO on Inter-police and Social Cooperation against Hate Crimes, which is cofinanced by the European Commission, in the call for 2022 of the Program of Rights, Citizens and Values.
The CISDO project aims to improve the capabilities of the Security Forces and Corps at both the national level (Civil Guard and National Police) and the local level (Municipal Police) to prevent, identify, mediate and combat racist and xenophobic incidents, and against hate speech and hate crimes. This improvement of capacities will be done together with civil society, so that it serves to promote peaceful coexistence in the cities.
The project is led by the Spanish Observatory of Racism and Xenophobia (OBERAXE) of the General Directorate of Humanitarian Care and Social Inclusion of Immigration, of the State Secretariat of Migration, in the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, and as partners are the National Office of Fight against Hate Crimes (ONDOD) of the Ministry of the Interior, in collaboration with the National Police of Salamanca and Valencia, and of the Civil Guard of Murcia and Cáceres, the University of Diversity of Salamanca,
This new CISDO project is also in line with the Ministry of the Interior’s II Action Plan against Hate Crimes 2022-2024; with the Spanish Government’s Comprehensive Strategy against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance; and also with the EU Action Plan against Racism 2020-2025.