Chapter 1 Introduction: The Police, a Key Actor in Human Rights Protection

Chapter 2 Police and Human Rights: Fundamental Questions

Chapter 3 The Police and the Prohibition of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Chapter 4 The Police and the Right to Life

Chapter 5 Command Responsibility and the Use of Force by the Police

Chapter 6 Effective Investigation of Alleged Police Human Rights Abuse: Combating Impunity

Chapter 7 The Deprivation of Liberty by the Police. International Parameters and the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights

Chapter 9 Surveillance Powers of the Police and the Protection of Personal Data

Chapter 10 The Protection Against Crime as a Human Right: Positive Obligations of the Police

Chapter 11 The Police and the Human Right to Peaceful Assembly

Chapter 12 United Nations Police Missions and Human Rights

Chapter 13 Police Training and International Human Rights Standards

Chapter 14 The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Its Work with the Police

Chapter 15 The Police and the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture of the United Nations. National Preventive Mechanisms