The population of Kyrgyzstan often has had a negative attitude toward the police force.  This has been connected with the sometimes high levels of human rights violations by law enforcement personnel and with their lack of interaction with the general population in the protection of public order.  Often, according to Public Foundation, this fear and distrust of police officers is based on second-hand information or is due to a lack of understanding of the police force’s role in the community.  

Responding to accounts of police brutality and human rights violations, Forum-Asia promotes community policing in Thailand by providing training to Thailand’s Royal Police Force through a computer-based training. The specialized training program, supported by the leadership in the RPF, tactically focuses on practical behavioral skills and professionalism to promote human rights in policing. Their goal is to improve the conduct of police officers to conform to international human rights standards, and to promote a community-oriented perspective on policing, accountability, and transparence, as well as to establish a long-term relationship with the community. While human rights based training has been ineffective in the past due to a number of reasons including the fact that it has been mainly theoretical in nature, has been based on the perspective of civil society as opposed to the police, and has not been incorporated into practical training, the program focuses on practical behavioral skills and professionalism that meet the needs of the police officers while promoting human rights.