On November 22–24, 2024, the Dnipro State University of Internal Affairs hosted a milestone national development program titled “Procedural Interview: Basic.”
The event was organized under the framework of a memorandum between DSUIA and the NGO “JustGroup” with the involvement of the Prosecutors’ Training Center of Ukraine and the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (Norsk senter for menneskerettigheter).
The program was supported by the project “Transformational Recovery for Human Security in Ukraine,” funded by the Government of Japan and implemented by UNDP in Ukraine. Participants included prosecutors, investigators of the National Police, the Security Service, the State Bureau of Investigation, NABU detectives, and lecturers from criminal procedure and forensics departments across Ukraine, including representatives from DSUIA.
The trainers comprised international and national experts, including representatives of the Norwegian Police University College (Ivar FAHSING), the Office of the Prosecutor General (Yurii BELOUSOV, Taras SEMKIV, Iryna SAMBORSKA), NABU (Volodymyr VASYLCHUK, Pavlo YERSHOV, Vitalii KABAYEV), the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School (Petro CHORNOMORETS), and JustGroup (Vasylina YAVORSKA). DSUIA was represented by Victoria ROGALSKA, a professor of the Department of Criminal Procedure and a police major, who acted as both a trainer and a program curator.
Over three days, participants acquired theoretical knowledge and practical skills on the university’s training grounds. They learned to integrate procedural interview methods into their professional activities and to impart this knowledge to future specialists.
Professor Victoria ROGALSKA emphasized that the procedural interview is an innovative technique already used by law enforcement agencies in many countries and meets the standards of the International Criminal Court. She also highlighted DSUIA’s role as a platform for expert discussions and the practical implementation of this method in Ukraine. University students have a unique opportunity to master this technique during their studies.
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