{"id":17686,"date":"2015-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/najava\/promoting-police-integrity-in-the-western-balkans\/"},"modified":"2015-12-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T23:00:00","slug":"promoting-police-integrity-in-the-western-balkans","status":"publish","type":"najava","link":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/event\/promoting-police-integrity-in-the-western-balkans\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting police integrity in the Western Balkans"},"content":{"rendered":"

\tThe regional network of civil society organisations POINTPULSE is organising conference\u00a0on Thursday, 10 December 2015 at 9 AM, in Hotel Zira (Ruzveltova st. 35, Belgrade).<\/strong><\/p>\n

\tThe main topics of this event<\/strong>\u00a0will be\u00a0<\/strong>the importance of police reform in the Western Balkans and its influence on the European integrations and regional cooperation, the role of internal control in strengthening police integrity and the implementation of community policing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\tThrough a dialogue with the main actors of police reform in the region, the conference aims to determine opportunities for strengthening internal control of police and developing the community policing concept.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\tThe conference will be officially opened with a panel consisting of the Director of Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, Ms. Sonja Stojanovic Gajic;representative of the Ministry of Interior of Serbia; the Head of OSCE Mission to Serbia, H.E. Mr. Peter Burkhard; and Head of Operations Section I at the EU Delegation to Serbia, Mr. Nicolas Bizel.<\/p>\n

\tPolice professionals from the region, European experts on police reform and a representative of the Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative will participate in the event.<\/p>\n

\tDuring the conference following issues will be discussed:<\/p>\n

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  1. \t\tWhy is the police reform important from the perspective of the EU accession process?<\/li>\n
  2. \t\tWhat are the main challenges for the police reform in the region?<\/li>\n
  3. \t\tWhat needs to be done so that citizens have access to accountable police and improved safety?<\/li>\n
  4. \t\tWhat are the ways for internal control of police to strengthen police integrity?<\/li>\n
  5. \t\tCan the community policing concept contribute to speeding up the police reform in the region?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \tWorking languages for the conference are Serbian and English. Simultaneous translation will be provided.<\/p>\n

    \tFor participation at the conference,\u00a0it is necessary to confirm your attendance by Wednesday, 9 of December 2015 the latest.\u00a0Confirmations of attendance can be submitted either via telephone +381113287226 or via email at\u00a0sasa.djordjevic@bezbednost.org<\/a>. Additional information on the conference can also be obtained through the contact points provided above.<\/strong><\/div>\n

    \tThe conference is a joint initiative of the regional network of civil society organisations POINTPULSE and the OSCE Mission to Serbia. The conference \u201cPromoting Police Integrity in the Western Balkans\u201d marks the finalisation of the first year of the\u00a0\u00a0\u201cWestern Balkans Pulse for Police Integrity and Trust – POINTPULSE<\/a>\u201d\u00a0project, supported by the EU through the regional programme \u201cCivil Society Facility.\u201d Content of the project is the sole responsibility of the BCSP and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.<\/p>\n

    \tYou can also follow the activities within the project on the website\u00a0www.pointpulse.net<\/a>\u00a0or via Twitter account\u00a0@POINTPULSEnet<\/a>\u00a0or hashtags\u00a0#BalkanCops<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0#POINTPULSE<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    POINTPULSE network would like to contribute towards creating consensus in the region on the realisation of the most important measures for the future development of police, with the view to achieving the ultimate goal – police officers with integrity and better security for the citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":17419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","categories":[8598,8591],"tags":[264,7076,6260,7984,7567,8148,7831,8237,7083,7482,8460,8307,5831,4993,9167,8020,7075],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-17686","najava","type-najava","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police","category-serbian-security-policy","tag-264","tag-balkans","tag-community","tag-concept","tag-conference","tag-control","tag-focus","tag-integrity","tag-internal","tag-police","tag-policing","tag-promoting","tag-reform","tag-regional","tag-roles","tag-strengthening","tag-western"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/najava\/17686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/najava"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/najava"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/najava\/17686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17686"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}