The staff of the Forensic Facility Sokolac and police officers dealing with offenders on daily basis are currently improving their human rights-compliant performance in a series of training sessions in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Both groups of professionals are attending complementary training programmes tailored to their specific professional needs on 8-9 November 2018. The sessions are separate but run in parallel on two different locations: 25 staff members of various profiles of the Forensic Facility Sokolac are attending the training session in Trebinje, while 26 police officers are attending the training session in Doboj.

The core prison staff trainers moderate these sessions by sharing their substantial knowledge and experiences with protection of human rights of persons deprived of liberty in closed environment.

The trainees are particularly glad that "Bosnia and Herzegovina has finally developed its own human rights based training with support of the Council of Europe and European Union. Now we have not only a first class forensic facility for patients, but also a training programme to equip us with necessary skills."

The training material used as basis for these sessions was produced earlier within the framework of the Horizontal Facility for Western Balkans and Turkey Action in Bosnia and Herzegovina "Enhancing human rights protection for detained and sentenced persons".