The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department created and released this month a custom Sikh cultural awareness module in its training program for law enforcement.
In January, the police department’s Southern Nevada Counter Terrorism Center, the Sikh American community of Clark County and the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund together develop the course to inform local law enforcement officials about the Sikh community and its cultural practices, said Kavneet Singh, SALDEF’s managing director.
Most of the material was previously produced and used by SALDEF, a Washington-based advocacy group, to train numerous federal, state, and local law enforcement departments, including the Transportation Security Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Washington Metropolitan Police Department. Read more...