The first meeting of national trainers on cybercrime and electronic evidence of the Council of Europe

On July 10-12 2019, the first meeting of the Judicial Training Network on Cybercrime and electronic evidence was conducted in Strasbourg, France. This meeting was supported by the Council of Europe and was attended by judicial trainers and representatives of training institutions from over 20 countries of Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia.

Purpose of this meeting was for judicial trainers to:

• Acquaint with current international challenges and responses regarding cybercrime and electronic evidence, including relation to the Budapest Convention and the work of the T-CY;
• Adjust the needs of countries that have been part of the CoE Project on judicial training on cybercrime and electronic evidence;
• Determining the needs, feasibility and steps that will be undertaken on the national judicial trainer’s network on cybercrime and electronic evidence.

This meeting focused on provision of the necessary skills for judges and prosecutors in the cybercrime area particularly through trainings and establish networks. Purpose of this concept is to help the judicial training institutions to develop training programs on cybercrime and electronic evidence for judges and prosecutors and integrate such programs in regular trainings of professional development.

Participants during this training shared their experiences and priority needs that relate to the area, and presented steps that shall be undertaken in relation to the national judicial trainer’s network on establishing cybercrime and electronic evidence.

Beneficiaries of this training were judges and two prosecutors also trainers at the Academy of Justice, and the Acting Program Coordinator.