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From 13th to 14th March 2014, the Council of Europe (CoE) in collaboration with the Central Probation Office (CPO) organized a meeting entitled "Execution of community sanctions, probation and measures." This event was attended by Luljeta KASA and Sergey DIKMAN, representatives of the Council of Europe Secretariat and Vladimir POPA, head of the Central Probation Office and Sergiu MARGARINT, Deputy-head.
The activity was realized by presenting the international and national experience by: Randel BARROWS, former manager of Probation (UK); Juan Carlos da SILVA, Judge Superior (Spain); Vitalie POPA, Head of the Probation Office of Botanica; Iurie MAHU, Head of Re-socialization Service and Igor SANDU, Head of Community sentences Service of the CPO. The activity was also attended by judges, prosecutors, probation counselors and experts from the Norwegian Mission of rule of Law Advisers to Moldova (NORLAM).
During the meeting, the experts discussed the following topics related to:
- Council of Europe standards on community sanctions and measures and probation - rules and principles, the key objectives of the policy presented by Randel BARROWS;
- Legal framework: community sanctions and measures, organization, operation of a probation service and cooperation between probation and prison services institutions in developing programs for release and reintegration into society; the interaction between the judiciary and the probation system - the experience of other countries, presented by Juan Carlos da SILVA;
- Interaction between judicial and probation services during the trial: pre-sentence reports, risk assessment and needs, planning interventions, restorative justice practices and aspects of criminal punishment in the form of unpaid community work.
During the two days, participants aimed to develop and identify new solutions to improve international cooperation in the field of probation.
At the end of the meeting there were presented the priorities of the probation system of the Republic of Moldova, including necessary actions to realize in order to have a proper operation and enhance the image of the probation institution. Vladimir POPA, in turn, thanked all those who took part at the event for collaboration and handed participation certificates to representatives of the court and prosecution.
