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Workshop on human resources policies in the
albanian prison System[1]
 23.10.2007
On 15-17
October 2007, Albanian Helsinki Committee (AHC)
organized a workshop on human resources
management in Albanian penitentiary
institutions. The overall goal of this
workshop was to built up policies and strategies
used for the development of human recourses in
the penitentiary organization like the GDP and
local institutions.
The specific objectives with
this particular activity was to present
principles and models of policies of staff
development and career development of prison
staff as well as to present the benefits of such
policies/strategies and procedures with the aim
to build a stable and sustainable organization
in terms of human resources and the overall
function of all the organization.
High managing staff in the
General Directorate of Prisons, especially human
recourses directorate, training section, legal
and social issues directorate, police
directorate, as well as high managing staff of
the local penitentiary institutions participated
in this activity.
The two international
experts involved in this workshop were Mr. Jan
van den Brand and Mr. Jacques van Huet, experts
form Dutch Agency for Correctional Institutions.
Ms. Edlira Papavangjeli, Program Manager,
moderated this activity.
 Experts
provided the participants with a clear concept
of Human Resources and most important its main
universal principles which guide the approach
towards issues like staff planning and its
development, career in penitentiary
institutions, the structure in the organization
etc. A concrete Dutch model on recruitment
procedures[2]
was elaborated in the workshop which ensures
quality in addition to the objective criteria of
recruitment set in the Albanian legal framework.
Furthermore, experts explained participants a
model of a list of competences used in the
recruitment process of staff working in
penitentiary institutions. A considerable part
of the work of the participants was done with
regard to the competencies needed for the three
levels of management in the prisons, that is,
high, middle and role base staff. The outcomes
of the working group will set the base for the
workshop on drafting the function profile of
different positions in the prison which will be
organized in November by AHC. The participants
assessed this workshop as very useful for the
changes needed to be done in the way human
resources are managed in the Albanian prisons
system.
The participants set out the
priority issues with regard to the human
resource management which you can find below.
Albanian prison system
should develop:
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adequate procedures for
the recruitment of prison staff which should
ensure good quality of staff working in
prisons;
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adequate basic training
of newly recruited staff by the training
center of prisons;
-
good training for the
management teams in the prisons so that they
are able to take further mandates;
-
procedures for the
protection of staff, providing opportunities
for staff career;
-
good and acceptable
working conditions for the prison staff.
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