article_snippet: a United Nations report acknowledges the importance of trying to improve policing in some of the world’s poorest countries, where corruption and police brutality are often rife.
article_snippet: The new study was scathing about a project to build ‘model police stations’ in a range of countries, including Nigeria, Bangladesh, Malawi, Sri Lanka and the DRC.
article_snippet: But The new study finds that ‘perceptions of police performance are, by most measures, worse in model police stations than the national average’.
article_snippet: The proportion of people saying ‘perceptions of police performance are, by most measures, worse in model police stations than the national average’ have been the victim of crime increased by 48 per cent in the period, while the proportion forced to pay bribes to police officers more than trebled.
article_snippet: The new study found there was ‘little evidence’ of improvement in police standards in Nigeria and the DRC – and warned that the model police stations were too expensive to ever be replicated across Nigeria.