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State Secretary Juro Martinović and Ambassador of Norway to Croatia Arne Sannes Bjørnstad opened the renovated premises of the Probation Office Zagreb II on Thursday, 25 April.

Croatian probation officers completed a Job Shadowing training in probation offices in Slovenia from 9 to 12 April 2024.

On 3 April 2024, the renovation works on the premises of the Probation Office Požega were handed over and a signboard of the Norwegian Financial Mechanism was installed.

On 17 November 2023, at the premises of the Ministry of Justice and Public Administration in Zagreb, an expert conference titled “New Drugs - New Challenges” was held.

On 2 and 3 October 2023, as part of the project “Strengthening human rights protection and public safety by improving the capacities of the Croatian probation service”, financed under the Norwegian Financial Mechanism, seven judges of the Borgarting Court of Appeal, Norway, visited Croatia.

On 21 September 2023, the third regional workshop entitled “Exchange of experiences and examples of good practice in cooperation with the probation service” was held in the Judicial Academy Regional Centre at the Osijek County Court.

Within the Prison System and Probation Directorate, there is a Psychological Crisis Interventions Team composed of civil servants from the Prison System and Probation Directorate.

Organised by the Ministry of Justice and Public Administration of Croatia and the Norwegian Correctional Service, the international conference was held in Opatija on 4 and 5 October.

During June and July 2023, renovation works were carried out on the premises of the Bjelovar Probation Office.

On 27 June 2023, the final conference of the Roma Mentors Pilot Project was held at the Park Hotel in Čakovec.

On 23 and 25 May 2023, the CEP together with the Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic organised the Conference on Probation and Restorative Justice as Alternatives to Detention within the European Framework.

Under the project “Strengthening human rights protection and public safety by improving the capacities of the Croatian probation service”, activity “Cooperation between prison system and probation system”, a Self-defence course for probation and prison officers was delivered from October 2022 to May 2023.

On 12 May 2023, employees of the Central Offices of the prison and probation system participated in a team building event.

On 4 May 2023, the Ministry of Justice and Public Administration delivered the second regional workshop for municipal court judges and the municipal state attorney's offices, organised by the Ministry's Probation Sector.

On 30 April 2023, Deputy Head of the Diplomatic Mission of the Kingdom of Norway in Croatia, Ms Latif Homma and Acting Director General for Prison System and Probation Zvonimir Penić opened the newly renovated Probation Office in Rijeka.

On 12 and 13 April, the Ministry of Justice and Public Administration organised an education on the application of electronic monitoring at various stages of criminal proceedings.

On 23 and 24 November 2022, civil servants from the Probation Sector of the Ministry of Justice and Public Administration Vesna Zelić Ferenčić and Martina Rakić participated in an interdepartmental workshop organised by EuroPris and CEP in Bucharest, Romania.

From 7 to 11 November 2022, Croatian probation officers and probation officers from Norway participated in a job shadowing programme in the Netherlands, in Maastricht and Groningen probation offices.

On 8 November 2022, Deputy Head of Mission of the Norwegian Embassy Latif Homma visited the Osijek Probation Office, where construction works for the purpose of renovating part of the Office had been completed.

During September 2022, probation officers from offices in Split, Zagreb and Dubrovnik underwent training at probation offices in Dublin, Ireland.

From 23 to 25 May 2022, the 12th European conference on electronic monitoring 'Electronic monitoring and probation goals: a symbiotic relationship' was held in Helsinki, Finland, organised by the Confederation of European Probation (CEP).

From 25 do 29 April 2022, Croatian probation officers participated in a job shadowing programme in Latvian probation offices.

From 4 to 8 April 2022, Croatian probation officers participated in a job shadowing programme in Norwegian probation offices.

From 21 to 25 March, Norwegian and Latvian probation officers participated in a job shadowing programme in Zagreb, Rijeka and Split probation offices.