Strengthening human rights treatment of detained persons based on European standards and best practices in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Back Court police and prison staff in Bosnia and Herzegovina exchange best practices with Slovenian colleagues

A delegation of senior prison staff from the Slovenian Prison Administration is sharing good custodial practices in a training session for court police and prison staff organised on 6-7 February in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This peer training, designed and delivered by local prison and police professionals, aligns BiH custodial practices with the best European practices and CPT standards. Slovenian colleagues are particularly welcome to share their past experience with ensuring good order while exercising dynamic security and proper functioning of prisons while adhering to human rights standards. These are all very important issues in light of the European integration efforts that BiH authorities are undertaking. Slovenian colleagues are well positioned to offer their advice, bearing in mind the regional ties and similarity of the two systems of execution of criminal sanctions.

This regional co-operation activity, building also on the previous joint work on producing Train the trainers handbook for law enforcement officers, is organised within the framework of the Horizontal Facility for Western Balkans and Turkey - "Enhancing human rights protection for detained and sentenced persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina", co-funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe and implemented by the Council of Europe.

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Focusing on the capacity-building of prison and law-enforcement officers, as well as forensic medical staff, the Action will further promote human rights approach to the management of persons deprived of liberty. This has also been the overall goal the Council of Europe Office in BiH. Furthermore, it will aim to ensure comprehensive treatment of persons deprived of liberty in the criminal justice system, regardless of the nature or length of their detention.

The EU/CoE Horizontal Facility for Western Balkans and Turkey II and the Action launched in July 2019 will continue the positive direction of further aligning the prison and police practices in Bosnia and Herzegovina with European standards and the best practices.

The Action aims at addressing recommendations of the European Committee for the prevention of torture, inhuman and degrading treatment of punishment. Furthermore, it will provide support to the BiH authorities in introducing system of electronic exchange of prison-related data.

The Action will deal with these specific issues as envisaged in the four components:

Component I: improving human rights compliance of law enforcement agencies;

Component II: enhancing treatment of prisoners through the application of case management system;

Component III: strengthening treatment of forensic patients through application of specialised treatment programmes; and

Component IV: agreeing protocols for exchanging prisoner data in electronic form.

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