CARIFORUM ‘s response to crime and security advances: The Dominican Republic Drug Treatment Court to be Strengthened
The Dominican Republic will benefit from training on strengthening drug treatment courts at a workshop to be held on 22-23 October, 2018, in Santo Domingo. The CARICOM Secretariat has collaborated with the Government of the Dominican Republic and the Executive Secretariat of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) of the Organization of American States (c) to strengthen Dominica’s existing Drug Treatment Court Initiative and to expand its operations to include juveniles and adolescence.
The training is part of the response under the Drug Demand Reduction (DDR) component of the Tenth European Development Fund (EDF) Crime and Security Programme between the European Union and CARIFORUM. The DDR component seeks to strengthen institutional capacity of national and regional drug demand reduction entities and practitioners to effectively develop strategies and implement policies and programmes in CARIFORUM. The use of illicit drugs continues to rise in CARIFORUM countries and a lack of institutional capacity has been identified as one of the challenges in the response against this issue.
The agenda for the two-day event will look at, among other issues, therapeutic justice programme as an alternative to incarceration, comprehensive protection of the rights of children and adolescents: principles and rights and identification of the needs to generate a specialised model in the adolescent population
The workshop will be held at the Crowne Plaza, in Santo Domingo. It begins at 0:900 hrs with a brief opening ceremony in which representatives of the Government of the Dominican Republic, CARICOM Secretariat, Executive Secretariat of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the European Union will deliver remarks.
