European Conference on Electronic Monitoring (EM) held in Germany - INSPECTORATUL NAÈšIONAL DE PROBAÈšIUNE

From 11 to 13 December 2014, in Frankfurt am Main/Offenbach, Germany was held the 9th Conference of Electronic Monitoring entitled "Electronic Monitoring, Probation and Human Rights", organized by the European Confederation of Probation (CEP), in partnership with the Ministry of Justice Hessen (Germany).

This meeting was attended by over 200 people from 30 countries and the representatives of the probation system in Republic of Moldova, the head of the Central Probation Office, Vladimir POPA, and the Deputy Head of the Analytical Activity and External Relations Directorate, Ghenadie CEBAN.

The conference was opened by Eva KUHNE-HORMANN, Minister of Justice Hessen (Germany), which stated the importance of the event in Europe and the opportunity to share the practice in different countries in the field of electronic monitoring.

The representatives of the Central Probation Office were involved in the workshop, where was discussed the EM developments in Poland. In this context, the Polish State worked on the draft law on EM for 4 years, and on September 7^th, 2007 was adopted a law on EM. Thus, Poland became the 13^th EM user country in the European Community. Therefore, within 5 years, this service received over 35,000 people.

At the end of the meeting, the participants discussed the current situation and challenges that face the probation services in implementing EM.