Denmark - 2012
Is there evidence that the immigration services engage in ethnic profiling?
- Code:
- RED48
- Key Area:
- Policing - Law Enforcement - Justice
- Strand(s):
- Racism
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No. |
| Qualitative Info |
No. There is no evidence to this effect; however, this does in no way rule out that ethnic profiling takes place within the immigration services. In a report made by the Danish Institute for Human Rights, it was pointed out that "identity controls in police district near Danish borders are carried out randomly based on the personal experince of the individual police officer. The risk of ethnic profiling when combating illegal immigration is presumably higher than other working areas of the police since the object of the search is to detect non-Danish citizens crossing the borders illegally". (Source: Danish Institute for Human Rights: Ethnic profiling in Denmark - legal safeguards within the field of the work of the police (2011). |
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