This page contains links to training materials, fact sheets and websites to help you understand more about harm reduction from both a policing and public health perspective.

The resources include the Law Enforcement and Harm Reduction Manual which was developed through the AusAID funded HIV/AIDS Asia Regional Project (HAARP). The manual contains a comprehensive police training curriculum on harm reduction as well as fact sheets and hand outs.

HIV/AIDS

• Injecting drug use and HIV
• Sexual transmission of HIV
• Fact sheets – countries
• HIV testing and human rights

Drugs, harm reduction and policing

• Harm reduction & law enforcement: annotated bibliography Excellent resource summarizing relevant articles and publications *New!
• Excellent training package from Harm Reduction Coalition USA – includes interviews with police, power point presentations, curriculum *New!
• Fact sheet on harm reduction
• Harm reduction explained
• Sydney’s Medically Supervised Injecting Room *New!
• NSW Police Service – initiatives and programs *New!
• Law Enforcement & Drugs – Australian Institute of Criminology
• From Coercion to Cohesion: Treating Drug Dependence Through Health Care not Punishment http://www.unodc.org/docs/treatment/Coercion_Ebook.pdf *New!
• Effect of drug law enforcement on drug market violence: A systematic review *New! 2011 article examined worldwide studies and found that  drug prohibition/law enforcement can contribute to high levels of violence, including homicide

South East Asia

• Sleeping with the Enemy? Harm reduction and law enforcement in prevention of HIV among and from injecting drug users in Asia
• Central Asia Drug Action Programme- CADAP-5
• Report_Police Workshop_August 3_reviewed final Excellent overview of UNAIDS police/public health workshop held in Bangkok, 2009

Central Asia

• The_Cost_Effectiveness_of_Expanding_Harm_Reduction Activities for Injecting Drug Users in Odessa, Ukraine Vickerman et al (2006)
• The impact of an HIV prevention intervention among injecting drug users in Belarus Vickerman & Watts (2002) International Journal of Drug Policy (2002)
• Harm reduction in Russia
• Third Force article June 2011 *New! An overiew of the the role of narcotics in the Osh tragedy, authored by the coordinator of the Russian LEAHRN website, Alexander Zelitchenko

International Harm Reduction Association’s 50 best articles on policing and harm reduction  www.ihra.net/PublicationList

Training material

• DCAM_Law_Enforcement_Training_Guide (Australia) *New!
• DCAM_Law_Enforcement_Guidance (Australia) *New!
• Needle exchange programs & policing – working together
• Police and harm reduction training manual (HAARP)
• Police advocacy
• HAARP police curriculum
• Guidelines for addressing police concerns about harm reduction
• Police policies and practices supporting harm reduction
• HR awareness training in Afghanistan New!

Occupational exposure

• Public safety and syringe exchange May 2011 *NEW! Fact sheet outlining the benefits of syringe exchange for police
• Risks of the Job – Video Part 1
• Risks of the Job – Video Part 2

Police and health partnerships: working with key affected populations

1.People who inject drugs (PWID)

• Police and Public Health Partnerships: Evaluating Vancouver’s safe injecting facility *New!
• Policing, crime and public health:  Lessons for Australia from the ‘New York miracle’ *New!
• The public health and social impacts of drug market enforcement: A review of the evidence
• Law enforcement and harm minimization in a street-level drug market

2. Sex workers

• Sex Work Resources – Harm Reduction Coalition have compiled a comprehensive list of organization & projects *New!
• Swing – a sex worker organization in Thailand has a strategy for working with local police cadets*New*
• Soro Papot in PNG and the Police Liaison Officer role in working with MSM *New*
• Sex work and Law Enforcement- Collaborations that Work Presentation by the Nossal Institute for Global Health at the 2011 Health & Sex Work Research Symposium. Provides a summary of police/health partnerships in Thailand, India and PNG *New*
• Off the Streets -  Arbitrary Detention and Other Abuses against Sex Workers in Cambodia *New*
• Mapping violence and policing as an environmental-structural barrier to health service and syringe availability among substance-using women in street-level sex work: International Journal of Drug Policy, 2008 *New!

Men who have Sex with Men (MSM)

• Meeting the Sexual Health Needs of Men Who Have Sex With Men in Senegal Includes information about police liaison to reduce violence within the MSM community