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 Developing the curriculum for the training of probation officers on drafting the presentence reports in the Republic of Moldova

In the context of continuing assistance to the Moldovan authorities, in November 2018 the Council of Europe initiated a series of working groups to support the National Inspectorate of Probation in achieving the specific objectives set in the Strategy for the Development of the Probation System in the Republic of Moldova 2016-2020 in line with the relevant Council of Europe standards.

Thus, on 7-8 February the second working session of the Working Group (WG) for the development of the curriculum and the training module for the training of probation officers on drafting presentence reports was held.

Apart from assessing the probation councilors’ tasks and responsibilities in relation to capacities, by the end of the second session, the WG managed to come up with the draft structure of the Curriculum and a preliminary draft of the training module. One more achievement of the WG was a comprehensive analysis of an illustrative number of presentence reports drafted by probation councilors throughout the country. This analysis will be followed by further consultations with the judiciary.

The WG session was attended by the Head, the Deputy Head and representatives of specialised Departments of the National Inspectorate of Probation of the Republic of Moldova, and was facilitated by the Council of Europe consultants.

This Working Group is 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 7-8 February 2019