JADES - Juvenile and Adults Detainees Support

In the framework of the multiple reforms in the criminal field, the Ministry of Interior of Georgia decided to extend its work with both the juveniles committing crimes and juveniles who are victims of them. With this juvenile involvement, both juvenile victims and juvenile offenders, the Ministry of Interior aims at supporting the rehabilitation and the reintegration of the juveniles into the society as well as developing their sense of the responsibility, thus decreasing their probability of re-offending.

Despite the capacity building support to the Georgian police and the drafting of legislation by the Council of Europe, additional work is further needed, however, to achieve the integration of European standards in Temporary Detention Isolators (TDIs).

The current Action was designed to address the following issues:

rights of detained persons and their treatment,
crimes committed by/against juveniles,
complaint mechanisms against police misconduct and
proper investigation of the alleged ill-treatment.

With its multiple activities the project aimed to achieve the following results:

the management of the detainees in the TDIs in line with European standards,
the capacity-building of police officers to work with the juvenile as victims and as offenders,
the national monitoring bodies (Office of Public Defender and the State Inspectors Office) and civil society organizations are ready to participate in the monitoring of human rights protection by the police and the investigative authorities.

This Project was implemented within 24 months, until 30 June 2021, with an overall budget of 600,000 Euros financed by the Action Plan of the Council of Europe in Georgia.

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Back Study visit for Georgian officials

@ Council of Europe

Officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the State Inspector’s Service (SIS) of Georgia visited the Council of Europe from 5 to 6 February 2020.

The participants discussed standards and good practices with the CoE Secretariat concerning the implementation of the CPT recommendations, children's rights within criminal justice, the ECtHR case law with particular emphasis on effective investigations into allegations of ill-treatment and the States’ obligation to execute the ECtHR judgments.

Exchanges were also held regarding domestic violence, personal data protection, combatting hate speech and homo-/transphobic hate crime, violence against women and trafficking in human beings.

The Georgian delegation confirmed their will to continue their cooperation in inter alia aligning the management of the detainees in the Temporary Detention Isolators with European standards, improving the professional qualification of the police officers and investigators working with juvenile victims and juvenile offenders and ensuring effective monitoring of human rights protection by the police and the investigative authorities.

The added value of the CoE standards in the prison area, its monitoring mechanisms and tools, with very specific recommendations in the CPT reports, together with ECtHR case law are the basis for the two-year JADES project.

This study visit was organised by the Criminal Law Cooperation Unit, in the framework of the CoE Project “Juvenile and Adult Detainees Support” (JADES) which is designed to address the issues related to the rights of detained persons and their treatment; crimes committed by/against juveniles; effective remedies against police misconduct and effective investigation of the alleged ill-treatment.

Strasbourg, France 5-6 February 2020