Italy

In 2019, OSCAD continued work on the "Facing all the facts" project, which was launched in 2016 and concluded on 15 October 2019, by implementing an online training course for law enforcement agencies in the field of crimes committed on grounds of discrimination. OSCAD has been the co-beneficiary partner of the project, which was led by CEJI - A Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe. The development of hate crime training material was concluded in 2018, and in 2019 works started to transfer the training modules from the online CEJI platform to the multi-agency SISFOR platform (the law enforcement online training system). This platform will make all the training material available to the national and the local law enforcement agencies, which will be able to use the various modules and adjust them according to their specific training needs.

Workshops on discrimination and hate crime were carried out for National Police officers who attended the relevant training/refresher courses held, among others, within the framework of ODIHR's Training on Hate Crime for Law Enforcement (TAHCLE) programme. About 680 inspectors were involved throughout the year, together with more than 4,000 units trained through cascaded training, and about 3,300 units trained online.