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Report on
The improvement of the Training Center
for the Prison administration in Albania
On 7 April 2006, AHC
organized a working session with the Training Center of the Prison
Administration at Vaqarr prison premises. This initiative was taken in the
framework of the support that AHC is providing to the raising the capacities of
the prison administration. The expert involved in this session was Mr. Jan van
den Brand, General Prison Governor in the Netherlands. Ms. Edlira Papavangjeli,
Programs’ Coordinator, represented AHC. The participants in this working session
were all the staff of the Training Center of the Prison Administration.
The goal with this
activity was to stimulate the discussion for further development of the existing
status, structure and curricula of this Center through stock taking and making
reference to the models offered by other countries in this area. The
representatives of the Training Center presented a detailed overview of the
historical background of the Center, its status from1997 till the present
situation, its structure and last but not least the training courses offered to
both uniform and civil staff in the prisons as well as the respective curricula
offered at present to the prison administration in general. The speakers
presented the needs and challenges of this Center with regard both to its
status, structure and curricula.
Mr. van den Brand
offered a comprehensive overview on the status and tasks of the Training Center
in the Netherlands, its developments and the present situation with the
curricula of the basic training modules for the prison officers and other
additional professional training of the middle and high management courses of
both the uniform and civil prison staff. The expert offered its recommendations
and suggestions to improve the status with the Albanian Training Center of
Prison Administration. The participants were provided with the model of the
basic training, which can help the high management of this training center with
their efforts to further improvement of the Center. In addition to the
discussions the expert also emphasized that in relation to good training
courses, the total procedure of recruitment for at least the uniform staff
should be in the hands of the National Training Center. He also showed what are
the most relevant activities in the procedure of the recruitment and he
recommended that the Albanian headquarters should consider to give the
recruitment task to this Center. A follow-up of this mission to develop in a
more concrete way a comprehensive curricula for this training center is an
intentional plan in the months to come. Expert recommends that the Training
Center should start work with a strategic Plan of at least three years where
steps of the development of this Center will be set forth to project where all
this process goes in
three years time.
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