The GLACY+ Project supported the National Cyber Security Center of Ghana in organizing two back-to-back Introductory Judicial Courses on Cybercrime and Electronic Evidence for judges and prosecutors, taking place – respectively – in Kumasi,19-23 October, covering the Northern region, and in Accra, 26-30 October, covering the Southern region.

The initiative, developed in the context of the National Cyber Security Awareness Month of Ghana, aimed at developing the introductory skills and knowledge required for judges and prosecutors to fulfil their respective roles and functions in cases of cybercrime, electronic evidence and search, seizure and confiscation of online crime proceeds.

Remarkably, all the sessions were delivered by a pool of national trainers, belonging to the Ghanaian criminal justice sector that were previously trained as trainers under the GLACY+ Project: one justice, one representative from the Ghana Police Service, one from the Economic and Organized Crime Office and one from the National Cyber Security Center.

Due to restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, a hybrid format was used, with local trainers and trainees in the room, and international experts and CoE staff joining via videoconference.

Ghana has been a priority country and a capacity building regional hub for the GLACY+ Project since 2016 and became Party to the Budapest Convention in December 2018.