Dnipro State University of Internal Affairs was represented by the professor of the department of criminal procedure, police major Viktoriia Rohalska, who joined the event as a speaker of the first panel discussion “How to build a system, and not a series of trainings”.
Viktoriia Rohalska focused attention on the issues of integrating the procedural interview into the system of higher education and professional development of practitioners.
A special emphasis was made on the necessity of transitioning from separate educational initiatives to systemic training of future and current legal professionals, which provides for the consistent formation of professional competences, practical development of skills and ensuring the sustainability of their application in professional activity.
The speakers of the event also became representatives of the Office of the Prosecutor General, the Main Investigative Directorate of the National Police of Ukraine, the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, the High Anti-Corruption Court, JustGroup and representatives of the legal community.
The event united representatives of pre-trial investigation bodies (the National Police of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine), prosecutors, judges, lawyers, representatives of the Department of Education, Science and Sports of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, scientific-pedagogical employees and applicants of institutions of higher education, as well as international and public organizations.
At the center of the discussions were issues of the development of the professional training system, evaluation of the quality of the procedural interview, its institutional implementation, standardization of practice and the introduction of mandatory video recording.
The event was organized by JustGroup with the support of the “Askold and Dir” Foundation, which is administered by ISAR Ednannia within the framework of the project “Strong Civil Society of Ukraine — the engine of reforms and democracy” with the funding of Norway and Sweden.
The participation of the representative of the university in the event became an important contribution to the professional discussion regarding the development of the procedural interview and confirmed the significance of institutions of higher education in the formation of a sustainable system of professional training of legal professionals.
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