Production of this manual was possible thanks to an inter-institutional cooperation agreement signed between the ICRC and the PNB in April 2007. Based on this agreement, the PNB began incorporating the human rights applicable to police work into its doctrines and training.

“This manual is significant because it brings together the international human rights rules which the Bolivian government must comply with, and also because it establishes procedures and techniques for police work that will encourage respect for these rules in practice," said Christophe Martin, the head of the ICRC's regional delegation for Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru.

As in Peru and Ecuador, the ICRC hopes that the Bolivian Manual of basic techniques for police work that respects human rights will be a useful tool for Bolivian police forces and that it will favour police action that respects fundamental human rights.