Enhancing the capacity of the police and establishing child friendly conditions and procedures for children in conflict with the law and children in need of protection. Project deleted
General Directorate “National Police” at the Ministry of Interior ·Bulgaria
About this project
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><span style="color: #000000">Programme outcome the project contributes to: “Improved capacity of Bulgarian Authorities in the area of child friendly justice”.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman">The project aims at ensuring child-friendly conditions, methods and expertise when handling children in conflict or in contact with the law, through improvement of both the physical infrastructure and psychological follow-up. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman">The project shall include, <em>inter alia,</em> the following activities:</span></span></span></p> <ul> <li><span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">Establishment of Child Advocacy Centers;</span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">Organizing trainings for police officers (investigative officers, child pedagogical officers and other police officers in contact with children) and improved training curricula;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">Improvement of child-friendly conditions in police stations for interviewing and detention of juveniles;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color: #000000"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">Improvement of legal framework</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"> through assessment of the applicable legislation and drafting legislative amendments and internal guidelines. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li> </ul>