Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum: Report on Organised Violence and Torture in 1999 highlighted and questions asked. Falanga has not been reported widely before in Zimbabwe10, but has been growing in frequency through the 1980s and the 1990s. It has been observed elsewhere that falanga tends to increase as the more obvious methods of torture become detected, or as public pressure against the use of torture grows. Although it is not possible to estimate the frequency of torture country wide it is enough to point out that sufficient cases exist to cause concern. We must point out that these are not merely allegations of gross human violations and our contention that torture is a problem is supported by both medical evidence and judgements by the courts. Undoubtedly the many years of emergency powers have done little to contribute to a culture of human rights amongst the police a fact which is readily admitted by the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Zimbabwe Republic Police. It is for this reason that the ZRP has been working with the Legal Resources Foundation the Human Rights Research and Documentation Trust and the AMANI Trust to provide human rights training to senior staff trainers of recruits and soon recruits themselves. However didactic education may by itself be insufficient to wholly change the problem. As Sir Nigel Rodley UN Special Rapporteur on Torture has frequently remarked the problem lies in police stations and not in classrooms and he has even more frequently remarked if police stations were made of glass there would be no torture. Here we would wish to point out that there is an analogy between human rights training for police and medical education. The attitudes of doctors are partly formed by their education in medical school and partly by their experience in hospitals with the role models of practicing doctors. So too will young policemen be influenced by their role models in police stations and there is a pressing need to reform the behaviour in police stations as much as there is need to put human rights in the curriculum of police training. 10 See AMANI Trust (1998), Survivors of Torture and Organised Violence from the 1970s War of Liberation, Harare: AMANI; See also CCJP/LRF (1997), Breaking the Silence Building True Peace A Report on the Disturbances in Matabeleland and the Midlands 1980 to 1988, Harare: Catholic Commission For Justice And Peace & Legal Resources Foundation. - 13 -