A 17-member group of law enforcement officers, forensic and prison staff was certified to deliver human rights-based training in Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 29-30 January 2020, in Sarajevo. This activity is as part of an internal accreditation scheme developed in close co-operation with Ministries of Justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Within a 4-month long train-the-trainers cycle, these group of police, forensic and prison professionals have improved their presentation and communication skills, required to competently deliver training programmes to their peers, based on the Guidelines for dealing with persons deprived of liberty in closed environment to their peers. The core prison and law enforcement staff training team mentored their colleagues throughout this capacity building initiative activity by sharing their institutional knowledge and lessons learned through from previous training experience and ultimately signed off on the accreditation exercise.

The accredited pool of trainers will further develop training materials and deliver training to their peers for the whole duration of phase II Action, until May 2022.

This activity is organised within the joint EU/Council of Europe programme Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey II - "’Strengthening human rights treatment of detained persons based on European standards and best practices in Bosnia and Herzegovina ", that is implemented by the Council of Europe.