21. 10. 2019 | PR, Serbia - management of patrols
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Serbia wishes to strengthen, as part of reforms in the EU accession process and with the help of Slovenia, patrol management capabilities, in order to better respond to people’s needs, coordinate work of police officers on the ground more effectively and provide them with greater security when performing police tasks.
For this purpose, from 16 to 19 October 2019, a study visit of high-level representatives of the Ministry of the Interior of Serbia in Slovenia was successfully carried out. Through simulations of practical cases, they were able to learn how patrolling and patrol management work in Slovenia as an EU member state and what ICT equipment is in use in Slovenia. They were acquainted with the operation of patrols of all police powers, both border, general and traffic police, and work was carried out in Novo Mesto, Ljubljana and Koper. On their arrival in Slovenia, Deputy Director General of the Police of the Republic of Slovenia Jože Senica greeted the Serbian delegation and wished them successful work. The Directors of the police administrations, Stanislav Vrečar and Janez Ogulin presented the experience of the Police Administrations Ljubljana and Novo Mesto. Intensive programme was implemented under the leadership of the Programme Director Andreja Dolničar Jeraj and with involvement of 28 representatives of the Slovenian police, including: Anton Štubljar, Head of the State Border and Aliens Department, Police Station Novo mesto, Miha Ristič, Operations Manager, OKC PU Ljubljana, Primož Kadunc, Head of the Traffic Police Department at the Police Directorate Ljubljana, Robert Bajuk, Head of the Operations and Communication Centre at the Police Directorate of Ljubljana, Bojan Bogovič, Police Commander of the Obrežje Border Police Station; Zoran Obrez, Police Commander of the Ljubljana Traffic Police Station, Srečko Medic, Police Commander of the Brežice Police Station, Ciril Mlakar, CVS Mobile and Dr Tatjana Dragovič, workshop leader.
This is a two-year Republic of Slovenia development aid project for the Republic of Serbia (2019-2019). The project continues with activities and a meeting on November 18-19, 2019 in Belgrade, focused on the development and production of ICT equipment that will assist in the management of patrols in Serbia.
The project is part of program activities carried out in cooperation with the Ministry of the Interior / Police of the Republic of Slovenia and CVS Mobile, and is financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia from funds for international development cooperation.
Further information:
Andreja Dolničar Jeraj
Programme Director
Centre for European Perspective
14. 10. 2019 | local self-government, PR, Slovenian Development Assistance, U-LEAD: with Europe
Jable castle is bursting with curious energy as Centre for European Perspective is again happy to welcome International Study Visit within the U-LEAD programme. The event began on Monday, 14th of October and will continue throughout the week.
The topic of the visit is “Cooperation between Business and Local Communities”.
There are currently 15 local officials from Ukraine taking part in the study visit with the vast majority being heads of amalgamated hromadas.
The study visit began with a welcome speech by Ms Meliha Muherina, Project Manager at CEP, who warmly welcomed the participants and presented CEP team and the work of CEP. She continued with an overview of the agenda for the following days. She was followed by Mr Grega Kordež from the Directorate for Regional Development at the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology, who briefly presented the regional development of Slovenia and the work of local actions groups. Participants were also welcomed by Ms Berta Mrak, the Head of the Department for Eastern Europe, South Caucasus, Central Asia and the Arctic at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Slovenia, who welcomed the group from Ukraine and gave a brief insight into work the Ministry does with Ukraine. She was followed Mr Andrii Borodenkov, First Secretary from the Embassy of Ukraine in Ljubljana, who expressed his pleasure at being able to greet the 10th study group from Ukraine on a U-LEAD study visit to Slovenia. He shared a few examples of the work the Embassy does and examples of Slovenian and Ukrainian cooperation.
After a short warm-up session and introduction of participants, the theoretical part of the visit begun.
First lecture of the day was given by Ms Irena Meterc, from SPIRIT Slovenia – Public Agency for Entrepreneurship, Internationalization, Foreign Investments and Technology, who spoke about SME support in Slovenia and establishing environmental conditions conducive for entrepreneurship.
The following lecture was given by Ms Larisa Vodeb, who focused on the work of Chamber of Craft & Small Business of Slovenia and Enterprise Europe Network.
With the theoretical part done, we will move to ‘the field’ in the following days.
On Tuesday, the participants will visit the Municipality of Sveta Ana, where they will hear more about the historical ties between Slovenia and Ukraine. They will also meet with the Mayor, Mr Slaček and visit LAS Ovtar and Development Agency Slovenske Gorice.
Wednesday is a day for visiting the municipality of Juršinci, where participants will hear more about the development of the municipality, local projects and LAS Bogastvo podeželja projects. On Thursday, participants will travel to the municipality of Odranci, where they will meet with the Mayor, Mr Markoja. Thursday activities will end with a meet and greet with local business representatives and representatives of local communities at Kodila.
The visit is taking place in the framework of the multi-donor action U-LEAD established by the European Union and its Member States Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Poland and Sweden. It aims at contributing to the establishment of multilevel governance that is transparent, accountable and responsive to the needs of the population of Ukraine. U-LEAD with Europe is supporting the Ukrainian Government, represented by the Ministry of Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Communal Services of Ukraine (MinRegion) as a key political partner in the coordination and implementation of the decentralization and regional policy reforms. The Program carries out demand-driven and targeted trainings for officials at the national, regional and local level.
27. 9. 2019 | PR, Serbia - management of patrols
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A field analyses in Serbia was successfully conducted from 16 to 21 September 2019 on the patrolling and management of patrols, in order to find ways for improved response of the police to the people’s needs, including in the case of migrations. Representatives of the Slovenian police from different areas of responsibility were working with their Serbian counterparts in different organizational units to determine what the current situation is in the field and what their needs are, while exchanging professional experience. The field analysis was carried out at the border police station Šid, organizational units of the Sremska Mitrovica Police Directorate, border police stations Rujan and Preševo, the Regional Border Police Centre against the Republic of Northern Macedonia, and traffic and general police stations at the Vranje Police Directorate. Representatives from the Analytics, Telecommunications and Information Technology Sector and representatives from the Belgrade MoI administration were also included in the implementation of the field analysis.
The findings will be used in the development of ICT patrol management equipment and further activities to enhance patrol management capabilities, with the next study visit by representatives of the Ministry of the Interior and the Police of the Republic of Serbia in Slovenia from 16 to 19 October 2019, through which, by observing the work and management of patrols, they will get to know the organization and approaches which are used in the EU, and learn through examples how ICT is used. The lessons learned will help with Serbia’s reform processes, which are a prerequisite for EU accession.
The project is part of program activities carried out in cooperation with the Ministry of the Interior / Police of the Republic of Slovenia and CVS Mobile, and is financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia from funds for international development cooperation.
11. 9. 2019 | PR, Serbia - management of patrols
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With the successful implementation of the meeting and introductory workshop on 5 September 2019 the fieldwork in Serbia started as part of the development assistance of the Republic of Slovenia, which is aimed at strengthening patrol management and responding effectively to the needs of the people when police intervention is needed. These are reforms in the area of freedom and security, which are also important for Serbia in terms of EU accession (Chapter 24). The aim is to upgrade the response and coordination of patrols and organizational units, and to strengthen the effective police response to any existing situation, especially with regard to migration, thereby increasing protection of human lives and human rights. This project contributes to building both human and technical capabilities.
Both sides, Serbian and Slovenian, confirmed the importance of the project by their active attendance, with participation of high-level representatives from all areas of police competence gathered at the meeting. They laid the groundwork for future work in the year 2019. The next activities will continue 16 – 20 September 2019 with field visits to analyse the situation on the field and needs in various organizational units. After the field visits, the work will proceed with the study visit of Serbian representatives in Slovenia. With such a method Serbian representatives will be able to learn on the ground how patrols are managed in Slovenia and how information and telecommunications equipment is used in Slovenia.
The project is part of program activities carried out in cooperation with the Ministry of the Interior / Police of the Republic of Slovenia and CVS Mobile, and is financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia from funds for international development cooperation.
Further information:
Andreja Dolničar Jeraj
Centre for European Perspective
[email protected]
29. 8. 2019 | PR, Serbia - management of patrols
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In the 2019-2020 period, Slovenia helps Serbia with the upgrade of development potentials on a case of enhancing capabilities for better management of patrols. The assistance is part of the reform processes in the area of rule of law and good governance that is among priority conditions for the membership of Serbia in the EU since this is of vital importance for citizens and precondition for reforms that follow. The project is conceptualized as a trilateral process of development learning, which will provide new capacities and experiences that can be used in future development projects. Within the framework of their international development cooperation programs, Slovenia and Switzerland cooperate in providing this official development assistance to Serbia. After a series of preparatory activities, the operational activities in Serbia will commence with the meeting, which will be organised on 5 September 2019 in Belgrade.
The project is part of programme activities finances by Development Cooperation Programme of Slovenia and Switzerland and carried out together with Ministry of Interior/ Police of the Republic of Slovenia as well as CVS Mobile.
2. 7. 2019 | Albania - Election, PR, Slovenian Development Assistance
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Within the framework of the international development project “Strengthening the transparency of the electoral bodies – exchange of experiences between Slovenia and Albania 2019-20”, the activity of monitoring of the integration of good practices in the conduct of local elections in Albania was carried out on Sunday, 30 June 2019, the day of local elections in Albania.
In cooperation with local partners, CEP experts were monitoring the implementation of the observation of domestic election observers and Albanian NGOs involved in the project, based on recommendations developed within the March workshop. Moreover, CEP experts conducted interviews with participating NGO’s in the project.
The project is financed from the funds for international development cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia.
