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11-05-2018

Specialized Training Program on capacity development in combating cybercrime – Session I

On 10-11 May 2018, the Academy of Justice within the Continuous Training Program, organized the first specialized training session on capacity development in combating cybercrime.

The purpose of this training was to advance the professional knowledge of judges and prosecutors in understanding the nature and forms of cybercrime as well as criminal offenses related to cybercrime

The first training session has started introducing cybercrime in general and  continued with the legal infrastructure and relevant institutions that can help combating this phenomenon, either at the local level as the National Council within the MIA against Cybercrime , which has drafted Strategies for 2016-2019, then Cyber Forensics within the Kosovo Police, as well as institutions and mechanisms of the international domain such as the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime (the Budapest Convention of 23 November 2001) and many international and active and initiative regional organizations in combating cybercrime.

Within this training were treated; cybercrime and challenges in combating it, dilemmas and  difficulties in proving the nature of cybercrime, relation of these crimes or the use of information system in commission of other related crimes.

Beneficiaries of this training were judges and prosecutors of basic instances from different regions of Kosovo.

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