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Today the first project and action plan of the probation forming of the strategic document financed by the EU and with the support of the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs was presented in Armenia. The probation actions are aimed at restoring social justice, to redress violations of the law, reduce crime and increase public safety.

The probation service will have jurisdiction to realize judgments not connected with imprisonment. It will supervise adult and minor prisoners and law violators, including those conditionally released from prisons. The program has to meet the expectations of the courts and the society regarding effective enactment of punishments not connected with imprisonment and effective supervision of practical implementation of alternatives.

‘The probation cannot replace the law enforcement system, but it can assist to the system so that the effectiveness of the functioning would notably increase, whether after release or work with a detainee in prison’ said the RA Ministry of Justice Deputy Minister Aram Orbelyan while presenting the project.

He noted that in case of correct combination of these three elements it will be possible to decrease the percent of the double crime, increase the element of social injustice, which in its turn will result in a more just and secure Armenia.

‘In order to implement the program in Armenia it is first of all expected to adopt the law about the probation, since all the further actions will have to be based on the definitions and mechanisms defined by the law on probation, also there will be actions that will be carried out simultaneously’, noted Gevorg Khachatryan, local expert of the technical support program provided to the RA Ministry of Justice.

‘Final adoption of the law on probation is expected in 2014’ G. Khachatryan said, adding that the law will be presented during the autumn session of the National Assembly, where it will probably be adopted in two sessions. The probation service will become fully operational from January 2016.