On May 2 an informational meeting with local municipality mayors and chairmen of city councils of Akhaltsikhe, Akhalkalaki and Ninotsminda was organized within the framework of Community Pollicing Initiative In Samtskhe-Javakheti Region. CPI Program manager presented the CPI project, its aim and planned activities. Special emphasis was made on implementing partnership municipal projects and the role of local municipalities. Municipal projects aim to foster collaboration between police officers and local municipalities to jointly plan and implement the initiatives addressing problems related to local youth security and wellbeing. Local municipalities were open to partnership and future action steps were planned.
On April 30, 2022 Cultural Attache Marcia Y. Outlaw and Education/Cultural Specialist at the U.S. Embassy in Armenia Hasmik Mikayelyan visitied Ijevan to participate in the “Vital Talks of Hope, Determination and Action” event organized by the “American Library and Training Center” (ALTC).
SCOPE has completed its annual trainings for police and teachers involved in various activities in the framework of its school-based component.
Training were delivered in two different directions - Legal Culture curriculum trainings for police officers and civic education teachers who will deliver joint lessons to 9th grade students in 23 public schools of Samegrelo and Imereti regions.
Another direction involves patrol officers and head teachers of 4th grades. This activity envisages conducting four meetings with 4th graders using non-formal education approach at 9 public schools in Tbilisi, Telavi and Rustavi.
The first LS Module "Rights and Responsibilities of Chidren and Youth" was held on April 5, 2022 in the selected eigth grade class of the Primary School "Sveti Vasilije Ostroški i Tvrdoški" in Trebinje. Teaching Team comprising Dejan Škrivan, a History teacher and Boguljub Ćevriz, a police inspector from PS Trebinje introduced students to the LS concept and the role of police officer in the implementation of the program "Legal Socialization and Juvenile Crime Prevention in Republika Srpska". The news and photos from the first module were published on the Facebook page of the school.
The first three-day Youth Leadership Workshop for Peer Forums was held in hotel "SL Industry" in Trebinje from March 21 to 23. The event gathered 15 students from the eigth grade of primary and second grade of secondary schools from Banja Luka, Istočno Sarajevo and Trebinje.
The selected students were chosen by the teaching teams with emphasis placed on those youth who are more at risk and could benefit a great deal from this experience. The workshops focused on problem solving, goal setting, communication, creative thinking skills and citizen engagement. Upon returning to their schools, each participating student, with support from their mentor teacher, will organize a peer leadership forum for approximately 30 students in their school or 1,020 students total. The training workshop was concieved and conducted by Maja Antić, teacher of Democracy and Human Rights at the Secondary Technical School in Banja Luka.
Particpants respons to this activity was very enthusiastic and judging by the messages received after the event, they are "...looking forward to more of these events which would help me enhance my skills ".
Attached are some of the photos taken at the event.
The second three-day Youth Leadership Workshop for Peer Forums was held in hotel "SL Industry" in Trebinje from March 28 to 30. The event gathered 18 students from the eigth grade of primary and second grade of secondary schools from Bijeljina and Doboij in Republika Srpska and Brčko, Zovik and Bijela in Brčko District Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The training workshop was concieved and conducted by Maja Antić, teacher of Democracy and Human Rights at the Secondary Technical School in Banja Luka.
Attached are some of the photos taken at the event.
The last of the three Police Youth Academies 2021 was organized in Orašje, Posavina Canton on January 31, 2022, at the amphitheatre of the Secondary School fra Martin Nedić in Orašje in front of the audience of fifteen (15) students from first to fourth grade. To reduce the possibility of COVID 19 spread among school children, in line with epidemiological measures for schools in Posavina Canton, this activity which normally gathers students from several schools in the project was organized for students of only one school. The introductory activity was conducted by the Department of Crime Technique and Counter-Diversion Protection within the Posavina Canton Ministry of Interior presenting the tools of their trade. Students had fun learning how to take fingerprints, how samples from the crime scene are taken and how suspicious substances are tested to determine presence of narcotics. Four police officers/members of Teaching Teams gave presentations on Anti-corruption, Rule of Law, Peer Violence and Cyberbullying. In the second part of the activity, the students worked in groups with police officers and then gave their own presentations on the above topics.
The event was covered by the Government of Posavina Canton Public Information Service and the local radio program (links below in Croatian language):
This was the last activity, implemented on what was the last day of a five-year long program “Legal Socialization and Juvenile Crime Prevention in Bosnia” (BLSP).
The Final Conference of the “Legal Socialization and Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency in Bosnia” (BLSP) implemented between December 1, 2016 and January 31, 2022 and funded by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) was held on January 19, 2022 at the Center for Children and Youth in Grbavica, Novo Sarajevo.
Due to COVID-19 travel and gathering restrictions imposed in several Cantons of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the planned number of participants in the Center had to be kept below 50 while others watched using Zoom platform. Introductory speech by the BLSP Program Director, Dr. Nedžada Faginović was followed by a video prepared by the students from the “Fourth Elementary School” in Mostar highlighting what they liked about the LSP. The program continued as an interactive event with live musical intermezzos alternating with presentations given by four panels of participants from different cities and institutions (ministries, schools and police) who were involved in in the project in their capacities as Curriculum Development Team members, Teaching Teams or Trainers. A Zoom interview was conducted with Dr Nina Bosankić focusing on the goals, the highlights and the main findings of the BLSP external evaluation. The program ended with short presentation of BLSP team and a refreshment organized in the hall of the Center. The Conference was recorded in Bosnian and in English language and the recordings will be forwarded to all participants and hopefully uploaded to the program website.
TVSA used the opportunity to interview stakeholder representatives from all cantons and included those interviews in a thirty-minute TV show on the BLSP which was produced and posted on their YouTube webpage in January 2022:
The last of the three Police Youth Academies 2020 was organized December 29, 2021 in Bosnia-Podrinje Canton Goražde. This was the third attempt at organizing the event after the previous two attempts (In October 2020 and March 2021) failed due to outbreaks of COVID-19.
The Academy was organized at the Cultural Center in Goražde. The participants were the second-year students from 3 secondary schools from Goražde where the BLSP was implemented during the fourth program year (the school year 2020/2021). Before the start of the official part of the program, members of the Support Unit within Police Administration of the MIA BPK introduced the participants to the equipment they use in their day-to-day work. The participants were then greeted by Armin Mandžo, Minister of Internal Affairs of Bosnia-Podrinje Canton (MIA BPK) who highlighted the importance of the Legal Socialization Program in juvenile delinquency prevention. After that, four police officers/members of Teaching Teams form the Sector of Criminal Investigations and the Uniformed Police Sector gave presentations on Anti-corruption, Rule of Law, Peer Violence and Cyberbullying. In the second part of the activity, the students worked in groups with police officers and then gave their own presentations on the above topics.
Academies are designed as interactive extracurricular sessions that foster youth confidence in the police and motivate them to work together to promote activism and leadership for positive changes in the local communities.
News of the event were also reported by the local media portals:
In partnership with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Una-Sana Canton (MIA USK), a Police Youth Academy 2021 was organized on December 9, 2021 at the Army Home/Cultural Center in Bihać. The participants were the second-grade students from eight (8) secondary schools in the Una-Sana Canton where the BLSP implementation started during the fifth and final program year in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. First, the Police Officers from the Video Surveillance and Radars Sector and the Department for Crime Technique of the Police Directorate with the MIA USK introduced the participants to the equipment they use in their day-to-day work. Afterwards, four police officers/BLSP teachers from the Community Police and Crime Police Sector gave presentations on Anti-corruption, Rule of Law, Peer Violence and Cyberbullying. After the presentations, the students worked in groups with police officers and then gave their own presentations on the above topics.
The topics of corruption and peer violence induced a lot of questions from the participating students which were readily answered by police officers who offered a platitude of examples from their experience.
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