On 6 November in Sarajevo, the Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), in co-operation with the FBiH Gender Centre (GC FBiH), the Network of Women Police Officers and UN Women, concluded a series of ten training courses for more than 400 police officers, social workers and civil society representatives from the FBiH, on the implementation of the FBiH Law on Protection from Domestic Violence and on the use of the FBiH domestic violence database.
The database, developed by the Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2014 with guidance from the GC FBiH and a working group consisting of police officers, social workers and representatives of safe houses, is one of the first of its kind to be developed in the Western Balkans. It represents a comprehensive source of information on all domestic violence cases/interventions in the FBiH that have been reported to police, social workers, safe house representatives and the domestic violence hotline.
The general aim of the training courses is to improve the work of relevant institutions in combating domestic violence in FBiH by ensuring a better recording and monitoring of domestic violence cases, more efficient analysis of the relationship between victims and perpetrators, and deeper insight into the system of victim support and protection.