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FINAL RESOLUTION
Executive Committee of Paphos (Cyprus)
28 – 29 March 2014
The European Council of Police Unions (CESP) – an international non – governmental organization (INGO) with the Council of Europe, representative of 350 000 police officers of 20 countries (13 of whom being European Union members) – attended its Executive Committee in Paphos on March 28-29, 2014.
The Executive Committee’s topic was introduced by Andreas SYMEOU, President of CPA (Cyprus Police Association):
‘’Relations between the Police and the Youth ‘’
”Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders, and love chatter in place of exercise” (Socrates, V century B.C.)
Each country encounters similar difficulties with its youth: breakdown of dialogue with adults, addiction phenomena, lack of respect for any form of authority, family breakdown…
Faced with these facts, the European Council of Police Unions acknowledges the responsibility of the adults, the family, the Police and more broadly of the State. The CESP invites its members to:
Approach and work closely with the structures naturally around youth (such as teachers, associations…)
Encourage the involvement of the young people in the decision-making processes
Make the practices of the Police more humane
Individualize their actions according to the context because « purely punitive » approaches or « purely preventive » ones do not work.
On a crisis context, we should keep in mind that youth is our future, youth is our chance.
Furthermore, social losses of European Police caused by the crisis have been identified by CESP.
CESP notes that:
Some countries are heavily impacted by stringent economic policies implemented by governments, as in Portugal, in Greece, in Romania, in Slovenia and in Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Material resources allocated to the Police forces decrease (fuel supply, ammunitions, transportation means, communication resources, etc.)
A total lack or a strong deterioration in social dialogue between the Police unions and their relevant ministries.
Freeze or decrease in salaries, recruitments decrease, lack of promotion, etc.
A deterioration of social dialogue with the government’s members.
Cyprus is affected by the freeze or the decrease of salaries (25 to 30 %), the lack of recruitments and promotions; however the social dialogue remains committed.
The Secretariat General of CESP has informed its members about the social rights defence procedures proposed by the control mechanisms and by remedies included in the texts of the Council or Europe, the European Union and the International Labour Organization.
CESP undertakes to implement the rights of Police forces defence procedures before the European and international authorities, as it has repeatedly done with success.