Online Course 31/2022: Strategies in managing child sex offenders

The aim of the activity is to improve management of Child Sex Offenders (CSO) in Member states and to share best practices in management of CSO taking into account the Directive 2011/93/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on combating sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children, and child pornography, replacing the Council Framework- Decision 2004/68/JHA.

Upon completion of the training activity, the participant will be able to:

• Share specialised knowledge, strategies and good practices on policing and managing child sex offenders;

• Understand the legislation linked to combating sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child pornography (EU level and Council of Europe);

• Identify European experience on specific aspects on the role of police and on interdisciplinary cooperation in dealing with child sex offenders;

• Understand the difficulties in handling child sex offenders and ways of overcoming legal, procedural and other obstacles;

• Benefit from good practices, experiences and aspects in relation to child sex offenders: maintaining registries, disclosure policies, monitoring for relapse, assessing risk, managing cross border travel, working with other agencies;

• Gain awareness on assessing and managing the risk of relapse;

• Manage existing applications of information technology in managing and monitoring child sex offenders.

The course will be held entirely in English, therefore it is essential that nominated officials possess appropriate language skills (at least B2 level). The entire activity will be carried out online hence the physical presence of participants will not be required.

The learning process highlights a learner-centred approach and will consist of:

• Online Contact Learning: daily live online sessions, group assignments, forum tasks, discussion with other participants, exchange of good practice (22.5 hours)

• Independent Learning: reviewing study material (e.g. case studies, watching webinars and short videos - 5 hours)

Since this will be hybrid course, meaning the course format is a combination of live sessions and self-study; participants shall be available for daily live webinar sessions to complete the course tasks. This is important, as the participants will need to exchange their ideas with other experts and participants virtually. In addition, the participants shall complete small tasks/assignments then share the results of these tasks between each other and discuss them collectively.

The course will be delivered over a period of 5 days, from 5 to 9 December 2022. Participants are expected to study around 5.5 hours per day during this period in order to be able to complete the activity (this includes already the 4.5 hours daily live sessions).

Nomination:

In case you are interested to attend, please contact your local CEPOL National Unit / CEPOL National Contact Point as soon as possible. Deadline for nominations by CEPOL National Units: 18 November 2022.

Selected participants have to be registered to CEPOL's online Law Enforcement Education platform LEEd where the online activity will take the place.