delegation of senior prison staff from the Slovenian Prison Administration is sharing good custodial practices in a training session for court police and prison staff organised on 6-7 February in Mostar.

This peer training, designed and delivered by local prison and police professionals, aligns custodial practices of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the best European practices and CPT standards. Slovenian colleagues are particularly welcome to share their past experience with ensuring good order while exercising dynamic security and proper functioning of prisons while adhering to human rights standards. These are all very important issues in light of the European integration efforts that authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina are undertaking. Slovenian colleagues are well positioned to offer their advice, bearing in mind the regional ties and similarity of the two systems of execution of criminal sanctions.

This regional co-operation activity, building also on the previous joint work on producing Train the trainers handbook for law enforcement officers, is organised within the action "Enhancing human rights protection for detained and sentenced persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina", a part of the joint programme Horizontal Facility for Western Balkans and Turkey, co-funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe and implemented by the Council of Europe.