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OSCE produces training film on domestic violence for Bosnian police officers
Sarajevo 29 June 2000
SARAJEVO, 29 June 2000 - On Wednesday, 28 June, the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina organized a public screening of its recently produced "Legal Rights - Domestic Violence" film at the Obala Art Center in Sarajevo.
The video will be used exclusively for the training of Bosnian police officers on the significant procedural changes defined in the newly adopted criminal code and criminal procedure code of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
"Our main objective was not only to produce a training material of high practical value," said Sverre Johan Kvale, Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina. "We also wanted to emphasize for each and every police officer in Bosnia that domestic violence constitutes a criminal offence - and can not be regarded as a private problem."
The production of this 30-minute training video, which shows how the main legal provisions of the new codes are to be applied in practical police work, was based to a Memorandum of Understanding signed 1999 between the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the United Nations International Police Task Force and OSCE.
The OSCE established its present Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina on 18 December 1995. In accordance with the General Framework Agreement for Peace (GFAP), the OSCE Mission activities are to: promote Democratization and the building of a vibrant civil society, foster the development of professional journalism and monitor the rights of journalists, monitor and advance the Human Rights situation, supervise the conduct of Elections, and encourage Regional Stabilization through arms control and confidence and security-building measures. The OSCE Mission continues to work closely with other international organizations and local institutions to implement the Dayton Peace Accords.
MEDIA CONTACT: For information, contact the Press and Public Information, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, tel.: (+387-33) 292 172; fax: (+387-33) 292 289; website: www.oscebih.org; e-mail: press.ba@osce.org
The video will be used exclusively for the training of Bosnian police officers on the significant procedural changes defined in the newly adopted criminal code and criminal procedure code of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
"Our main objective was not only to produce a training material of high practical value," said Sverre Johan Kvale, Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina. "We also wanted to emphasize for each and every police officer in Bosnia that domestic violence constitutes a criminal offence - and can not be regarded as a private problem."
The production of this 30-minute training video, which shows how the main legal provisions of the new codes are to be applied in practical police work, was based to a Memorandum of Understanding signed 1999 between the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the United Nations International Police Task Force and OSCE.
The OSCE established its present Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina on 18 December 1995. In accordance with the General Framework Agreement for Peace (GFAP), the OSCE Mission activities are to: promote Democratization and the building of a vibrant civil society, foster the development of professional journalism and monitor the rights of journalists, monitor and advance the Human Rights situation, supervise the conduct of Elections, and encourage Regional Stabilization through arms control and confidence and security-building measures. The OSCE Mission continues to work closely with other international organizations and local institutions to implement the Dayton Peace Accords.
MEDIA CONTACT: For information, contact the Press and Public Information, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, tel.: (+387-33) 292 172; fax: (+387-33) 292 289; website: www.oscebih.org; e-mail: press.ba@osce.org