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ROUND TABLE ON ‘’VIOLENCE IN THE FAMILY – SITUATION, CHALLENGES, AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS’’
| Banja Luka
| Friday, 24/11/2023
The Republic of Srpska Minister of the Interior, Mr Siniša Karan, and the Republic of Srpska Police Director, Mr Siniša Kostrešević, opened today a round table titled ’’Violence in the family – situation, challenges, possible solutions’’ organised by the Administration for Police Education of the Republic of Srpska Ministry of the Interior at the Zalužani Training Centre.
Participants of the round table agreed that the number of cases of domestic violence and violence against women was expanding, and a multidisciplinary approach to this problem was necessary in order to assist both the victim and the perpetrator, and prevent the violence to reoccur.
The Republic of Srpska Minister of the Interior, Mr Siniša Karan, said that the Republic of Srpska undertook an important step in this regards, because the Republic of Srpska had normatively regulated this area and every form of domestic violence was treated as a criminal offence.
He added that in this way, as well as through long-running campaigns, the victims were empowered to report domestic violence, but also to trust the police. "That's why we have an increase in the number of these criminal offences. We work a lot to ensure that the victim trusts the police, because victims have a severe fear of violent people," Minister Karan said.
He noted that the round table "Violence in the family - situation, challenges, and possible solutions" was an opportunity to review the current practice and assess which areas can be improved in future.
"The training and education of the police in dealing with cases of domestic violence is very important, so we have introduced a special subject of domestic violence and peer and juvenile violence as mandatory subject in the High School of Internal Affairs," Minister Karan said.
Assistant Minister of Family, Youth and Sports of the Republic of Srpska, Ms Jelena Kurtinović, reminded that the Government of Republic of Srpska issued a new Draft Law against domestic violence and violence against women in October, which establishes better rights for victims and defines relations in a multisector sense.
"The goal is to approach prevention, assistance and protection of victims in an effective and better way, so that femicide does not occur, as the ultimate form of violence," Ms Kurtinović said.
Ms Kurtinović warned that the number of cases of domestic violence and violence against women was expanding, and pointed out that this phenomenon was an alarm for the whole society to activate itself in systemic approaches to solving this problem.
ROUND TABLE ON ‘’VIOLENCE IN THE FAMILY – SITUATION, CHALLENGES, AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS’’
