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Albanian Helsinki Committee
starts a one year project “For a more
professional prison staff and civilised managed
institutions in Albanian prison system”
30.07.2010
Prisons are a very important public service
related to the security, protection of the
society and re-integration into the society of
the persons under their care after their
release. They should always be governed by
civilian employees, appointed by a transparent
and competitive procedure, responsible for the
execution of the penal sentences, guarding the
balance between the security rules and respect
for fundamental rights and freedom of the
prisoners.
The
Albanian prison system has undergone in the
recent years some progress especially with
regard to the improvement of the recruitment
procedures and basic training of the uniform
staff that enters the prison system, but till
now there is no on-going training practice of
middle managers by the General Directorate of
Prisons (GDP) which still remains an urgent
need. It is even so that the majority of the
middle managers of the uniform staff have not
undergone any basic training for uniform staff,
a course which is followed nowadays by the newly
recruited staff in the prison system. Taking
into account the importance of the middle
managers in the prison organisation, it is of
utmost importance that these employees receive
an adequate training.
Having
this need in mind, Albanian Helsinki Committee (AHC)
in close cooperation with the GDP and more
concretely with the Training Centre of Prisons
as well as with the valuable input of the Dutch
Prison Service experts already started
implementing a one year project “For a more
professional prison staff and civilised managed
institutions in Albanian prison system”.
The specific objective of
this project is to increase the professional
capacities of the middle managers in the prison
system through a training curricula designed for
this purpose. Some of the main expected outcomes
at the end of the lifetime of this project will
be the following:
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A new
good practice introduced for a consolidated
training and continuous training of middle
manager in Albania;
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The
Training Centre of Prisons at the General
Directorate of Prisons will be well oriented
on the use of the training curricula for a
sustainable training process of the prisons’
middle managers.
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A
complete training curriculum targeting
middle managers will be available to be used
for the future trainings of middle managers
in the prison system.
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A
considerable number of staff from the middle
managers level will be trained in six pilot
institutions such as in Lezha, Vlora,
Fushë-Kruja, Kavaja, Peqin and Korça
with the new training curricula in place for
the middle managers.
As the
commencement of this project served a joint
working session with the head of the Training
Centre of Prisons, Mr. Femi Sufaj and
participation and contribution of the Dutch
expert in penitentiary issues Mr. Jan van den
Brand and Ms. Edlira Papavangjeli, Programs’
Manager at the AHC, held at the GDP premises on
27 July 2010. As the result of this session, a
proposal for the structure, specific topics of
the curricula for the prison middle managers
were drafted with a proposal time length for the
realisation of this specific training program.
This proposal waits for the approval of the
General Director of Prisons accompanied by an
working document for this purpose to be drafted
by the Training Centre of Prisons.
This
project is implemented by the Albanian Helsinki
Committee and funded by the Kingdom of the
Netherlands Embassy in Tirana, Albania
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