The scale of human rights violations led the UK to announce a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing hosted Winter Olympics, in February 2022.4 And yet, in parallel to this apparently strong stance against human rights abuses, the UK government has funded the London Policing College - a British company with close ties to the UK Police Service which partners with Chinese police training institutions lin. [...] The UK visit is described as laying the foundation for the university’s study program in the UK and as having two main purposes; first, to understand the LPC’s capability in training foreign police, and sec- ond, to understand the counter-terrorism situation in the UK, “especially the main approaches that the UK and its law-enforcement agencies have adopted in the prevention and fight against terr. [...] Only the proposal title, “Developing policing cooperation, education and research between the UK police, China (Hunan and Shanghai Police Acad- emies) and the University of West London”, makes a UK university con- nection.81 The reference to the UK police implies official UK Police Service involvement, and raises questions about their role in the project. [...] One 2016 report on the website of the Communist Party of China refers to a member of Xinjiang’s public security department extolling the importance of public security aid to the region and stating the need to expand this initiative. [...] The report also refers to the role of the Ministry of Public Security and the “public security organs in fraternal provinces” in sending comrades to Xinjiang.97 In a 2020 report, Xinjiang Police College refers to the arrival of Xinjiang Aid “cadres”, at an important time when the college was making plans for the establishment of a dedicated course in counter-terrorism.98 The college also describes.
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