The Council of Europe and the Office of Cybercrime of the Department of Justice of the Philippines (DOJ-OOC) are organizing the first introductory training of trainers course (ToT) for Judges, Magistrates and Prosecutors of the ASEAN Region between 20 and 23 March 2018.
The training is delivered by officials from judicial and police authorities from the Philippines with the support of international experts to over 30 criminal justice professionals coming from Brunei, Cambodia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
The course follows the Council of Europe's approach to judicial training aimed at empowering countries to form a pool of local trainers able to develop and implement their own national training programmes on cybercrime and electronic evidence.
The Philippines is in the process of ratifying the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, thus becoming the first country in the ASEAN region to be Party to this treaty.
