The institute’s executive was tasked with considering human rights in its international education policy in late 2019 – around the time when it was inviting hundreds of students from Chinese police colleges but concerns about China’s human rights abuses were mounting. Member Len Goerke, the recently retired chief of the West Vancouver Police Department, told the board an international education policy on human rights requires special consideration for law enforcement courses. “When you’re training paramedics from other countries, that’s very different, in my mind anyway, than when you’re training police officers,” he said. Goerke said the policy proposal (which was not made public) needed stronger language to “say when we aren’t going to do something.”
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