We design and implement world class Justice Sector Reform and Democratic Policing programs around the world. We adapt to host-country conditions, and are highly responsive to the needs and expectations of our funders and host-country partners. To implement our specialized programs, we maintain a gold-standard cadre of justice sector professionals, including police executives, judges, prosecutors, and correctional officials. In our technical assistance programs, we often work with senior-level Ministry officials who can directly impact justice sector development in their country. The Emergence Group brings technical expertise, cultural understanding, and the power of personality to bear on all of our programs.
We pride ourselves on being an agile organization with a focused business strategy, which allows us to deliver world class services to our clients.
OUR CAPABILITIES
The Emergence Group provides high quality and responsive services to host county governments. Whether our clients need a limited project targeting reform of one aspect of the criminal justice system, or a comprehensive developmental effort requiring assessment, planning and implementation of a complex plan, TEG is the preferred choice. We are strong advocates for a holistic approach to criminal justice reform.
However, we also recognize that in some cases, shifting priorities and limited funding may impact our client’s options. Our staff’s extensive experience in assisting foreign criminal justice programs enables us to quickly identify and design effective solutions for virtually any police, prosecutorial, judicial, or correctional system deficiency. This allows us to deliver quality services under any scenario.
Strategic Planning, Organizational Development
TEG is able to assess all aspects of a host country’s criminal justice system to plan, implement and evaluate appropriate programs. Capacity building means developing sustainable and functional performance outcomes that are consistent with the principles of policing in a free society. Capacity building consists of several activities that build strong organizations.
Organizational Development
TEG believes that organizations require strong foundations in order to thrive. These foundations are best built through an orderly, systematic process that contains the following elements:
-Strategic Planning
-Legal Authority Reform
-Human Resource Development
-Justice Integration
Community Policing
Community Policing programs are highly effective in making significant and long-lasting change in both the effectiveness of a law enforcement agency, as well as in the way in which it performs its day-to-day duties. Community policing is not just a tactic or an operational strategy; it is a fundamental change in the philosophy of how police services are to be delivered. It requires that the law enforcement agencies work in partnership with the community, citizen groups, and NGOs, to identify and prioritize crime and quality of life issues. Once identified, the community at large and the police come together to reduce or eliminate the problems.
Counter-Narcotics Programs
For many emerging nations, the failure to combat illegal drugs can jeopardize economic development, governmental stability, criminal justice reform, and the protection of individual human rights. The nature, extent, and complexity of narcotics problems vary from country to country. Equally varied have been counter-narcotics efforts. Recognizing that the fight against narcotics is a complex, evolving and multi-faceted problem, TEG offers a unique and comprehensive problem-solving approach.
We help to improve a Ministry’s ability to bring the entire breadth of their resources to bear on the narcotics problem. While individual resources, such as K-9 drug detection dogs, specialized anti-drug street patrols, or undercover intelligence gathering units are critical as operational tools, command staff support is also needed to ensure that these units are not isolated operations within a dysfunctional agency. In this regard, TEG’s philosophy emphasizes top-down leadership development as essential to address issues, integrate anti-corruption efforts, and to institutionalize and manage change.
Anti-Corruption
Governmental corruption and police misconduct are all too common in emerging democracies. Wide-spread governmental corruption results in a loss of public confidence in the government, a lack of respect for law enforcement, and a loss of economic development opportunities. When working with law enforcement bodies, our anti-corruption efforts are focused on four areas: education, prevention, enforcement and accountability.
TEG has worked with the Ministry of the Interior in Ukraine to devise and implement strategies to reduce law enforcement corruption and misconduct. The anti-corruption project in the Ukraine focused on these areas: implementing procedures and policies to make the police more accountable to the public for their actions; increasing the level of transparency related to how law enforcement polices itself to stop corruption and misconduct; and developing awareness with in the national police regarding the need to reduce the level of corruption and misconduct.
Forensics
Forensic science and forensic investigative techniques are an essential part of modern democratic policing, representing the most objective method law enforcement has to establish the facts of a criminal case.
Integrating forensic investigative methods into the host country’s criminal justice system demonstrates both the host country’s desire to implement rule of law programs, and to protect the human rights of its citizens though the use of investigative techniques that are based upon objective scientific methods, rather than subjective witness statements or coerced confessions. Four components are used to integrate the use of forensic science into a host country’s criminal justice system. These developmental components include:
-Assessment, Evaluation and Program Planning
-Management Development
-Infrastructure Development
-Technical Development
Anti-Human Trafficking
TEG works with host governments to counter human trafficking by strengthening law enforcement and prosecution institutions, legislation, training, and providing policy advice.
The Emergence Group is uniquely qualified to provide teams of subject-matter experts who have extensive international experience in assisting governments in assessing the extent of their human trafficking problem and the effectiveness of their existing counter-measures. We can then use this information to make evidence-based decisions to design, implement, and evaluate efficient and effective anti-human trafficking policies, programs and initiatives.
Women’s and Human Rights
Many developing countries and emerging democracies have long-standing traditions that deny women and others the most basic of rights.
TEG has successfully worked with NGOs and IGOs to identify the areas in which women are treated in a manner not in accordance with basic human rights and human dignity, and then to devise strategies to reduce these abuses. Since these are community issues, they require a community response. TEG uses community engagement and Community Policing techniques to ensure that the voices of all key stakeholders are heard.
Academy Development
TEG offers a comprehensive range of Law Enforcement Academy Development training and technical assistance. We conduct training that has been specifically designed to meet the needs of the different positions within an Academy. We offer content specific training courses for instructors, instructional systems designers, training evaluators, and training managers. Our model of experiential learning not only facilitates the migration to community-based policing solutions, but also produces a bottom-up approach to improving national law enforcement capabilities.
Technology Implementation
TEG has the expertise needed to assist rule of law agencies in identifying needs that can be addressed through the use of technology. Our staff can assist host countries conduct studies to determine the feasibility of selecting and implementing:
-Software based criminal justice system case management systems;
-Advanced communications and automated dispatch systems;
-Automated fingerprint analysis and classification systems and databases;
-Technology to improve the presentation and delivery of training, to include distance learning;
-Technology to assist in criminal investigations.
Once the feasibility study is completed, TEG can assist by helping design and manage the technology implementation plan.
Border Integrity and Management
Recent world events have been marked by the cross border flow of persons engaged in a variety of criminal enterprises including terrorism, human trafficking and narcotics trafficking. Accordingly, the integrity of a country’s borders has become an essential element in both ensuring internal security and in controlling transnational crime that has world wide implications. TEG is capable of assisting host countries in developing and implementing effective border control systems.
This effort may include:
-Border security which is defined as the prevention of cross border movement of unauthorized personnel, goods and/or contraband;
-Immigration which includes the policies, processes and the technology that is needed to facilitate the entry and exit of authorized persons to or from a host country; and
-Customs, which regulates cross border movement of goods into and out of a host country.