An outline of our work in Europe, our past work and conference attendance.

 

 

Four Garda members and one member of civilian staff attended at the European Gay Police Association Conference in Vienna in June. Gardai presented two of the conference workshops. Links were built with new police services in Europe and Australia. Irelands experience in developing a first class support structure was of assistance to many of the countries who are in the early development stages. It is interesting to note that the Belgian GPA is using the G-Force constitution the basis for its new GPA group.

 

 

 

European Research

 

Moving forward cannot happen without knowing where you are and where you want to get to. With this in mind G-Force members when setting up the group conducted considerable research on the various support structures for LGB police officers around Europe and beyond. The results of this research has been collated and distributed to our European counterparts. In 2010 G-Force were in a position to share the information with Belgian, Hungarian and Mongolian police and human rights groups! A new ‘as is’ research project has commenced on the current European LGB police situation.

 

2012 European Gay Police Conference Dublin

 

The EGPA requested that G-Force consider holding the 2012 European Gay Police Conference in Dublin. Having discussed the proposal G-Force have undertaken to hold the conference in Dublin in the last weekend of June 2012.

 

Plans are at an early stage but already Dublin Castle Conference Centre has been provided, sponsored by the Department of Justice. The Equality Authority has also expressed an interest in supporting the conference.

 

The conference given current budgetary constraints will require considerable sponsorship but early indications of support from a variety of state bodies are heartening. The theme of the conference will be very much business focused, aiming to explore how LGBT progress can support professional policing.

 

Links to EGPA Website and EGPA members websites (available at http://www.eurogaycops.com/) . 

 

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