Italy

In January 2020, a conference entitled "Victims of Hatred" was organized under the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, with the participation, among others, of the Minister of the Interior, the Minister for Equal Opportunities, and the Chief of Police-Director General of Public Security. Based on the conference, a paper entitled "When Hatred Becomes A Crime- Hate Crimes Characteristics and Legislation" was published in the official National Police (Polizia di Stato) monthly review "Polizia Moderna" of January 2020. The paper is an easy-to-read informative tool, to allow for better understanding of hate crimes, their characteristics and peculiarities, bias indicators, vulnerable victims, and relevant legislation (both national and international). The paper was also published in Italian and English on the websites of the Ministry of the Interior, the National Police and the Carabinieri Corps. Another paper entitled "Hatred of disabled people" addressing disability hate crimes  was published in Polizia Moderna (October 2020 issue) and in Italian and English on the mentioned websites, as well as being disseminated among the Italian and international police forces and stakeholders.

In 2020, OSCAD further adapted of three training modules developed in the framework of the project "Facing all the facts" ("What a hate crime is", "Bias Indicators" and "Vulnerable victims") on the SISFOR (multi-agency) online platform. It also implemented a fourth module dedicated to ethnic-racial discriminatory profiling. The four modules constituted the teaching materials for a professional training day in 2021 ("When hatred becomes a crime") for all officers of the National Police, available through the mentioned SISFOR platform.