Promoting a human rights compliant criminal justice system in the Republic of Moldova

The Programme ”Promoting a human rights compliant criminal justice system in the Republic of Moldova” is in line with the strategic priorities for cooperation as formulated in the Council of Europe Action Plan for the Republic of Moldova for 2017-2020, and is funded by the Norwegian government.

It is aimed to ensure a higher respect for human rights and the rule of law by assisting the national authorities in building up an efficiently functioning criminal justice system, in line with European human rights standards, and based on the principles of humanisation, resocialisation and restorative justice.

Main intervention areas will cover policy/legal framework, institutional and practical implementation levels, with the focus on:

Consolidation of criminal justice policy, legislation and judiciary practice in line with international standards with respect to the liberalization of criminal proceedings, including strengthening the application of non-custodial pre-trial preventive measures and sanctions, alternative sanctions in criminal cases, improvement of probation services and release on parole mechanisms
Better treatment and resocialisation of inmates by improving the regulatory and policy framework as well as prison staff capacities relevant to regime arrangements and management of prisons, implementation of treatment programmes and provision of health care services for inmates;
Support towards the development of the capacities of criminal justice stakeholders in the light of the implementation of the on-going reforms, including judiciary, prosecution service, as well as Ombudsperson’s institution and National Prevention Mechanism (NPM).

The Programme is expected to be implemented in 36 months (as of 1 March 2018).

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Back Comprehensive analysis in view of the reorganisation of the Probation Service in the Republic of Moldova

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The final session of the Working Group (WG) on the reorganisation of the Probation Service was held in Chisinau, on 22-23 April 2019, as part of the Council of Europe support to the National Inspectorate of Probation (NIP) of the Republic of Moldova. The main objective of this WG was to analyse the organisational structure and the functioning of the Probation Service and to make recommendations for reorganisation in order to ensure increased efficiency.

A comprehensive analysis with four options for the reorganisation of the structure of the central and regional probation offices was presented to the Ministry of Justice and the NIP. The analysis aims at enhancing the functioning of the Probation Service from the strategic, operational and organisational perspectives, in line with the Council of Europe standards and best practices in the field.

The analysis contains recommendations for efficient use of available resources, for capacity building of the probation offices at central and regional level and for improving coordination among all the involved actors.

The WG session was attended by representative of the Legal Drafting Directorate of the Ministry of Justice, the NIP Director and representatives of its specialised Departments, and was facilitated by the Council of Europe consultants. It was organised under the auspices of the Programme “Promoting a human rights compliant criminal justice system in the Republic of Moldova”, funded by the Government of Norway and implemented by the Council of Europe.

Chisinau 22-23 April 2019