SIPA

Today, September, 21, 2011, a three-day training course on interviewing war crime victims and witnesses organised by the US Embassy in B&H was completed with the certificate award ceremony for 24 inspectors of the State Investigation and Protection Agency dealing with detection and investigation of war crimes.
During the training course that commenced on Monday, 19.09.2011 at the premises of the SIPA Special Support Unit and that was also attended by investigators of the Prosecutor's Office, the participants were given an opportunity to hear the lectures of Darell Dones, Supervisory Special Agent from the FBI Behavioural Science Unit and lecturer at the FBI Academy.
„The aim of this training was to exchange experience with our American colleagues acquired through war crimes investigations and in that way achieve our goal – to evidence the truth and trace those who committed the war crimes in B&H”, said Miroslav Pejčinović, Deputy Head of the SIPA Centre for Investigation of War Crimes and Crimes Punishable under the International War and Humanitarian Laws.
In the first half of 2011, the inspectors of the Agency working on detection and investigation of war crimes, conducted 347 investigations, detected 49 crimes and operated upon 413 orders and requests of the B&H Prosecutor’s Office and B&H Court, submitted 205 reports, apprehended 12 persons, and submitted 38 reports on perpetration of criminal offence to the prosecutor’s offices.
„You, who are working on war crime investigations, have been given a heavy burden - not only that you will bring justice to those injured in the war in B&H, but you are an important element in bringing the peace in B&H and ending the conflict in the region,” said James Tillman, Director of International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program of the US Justice Department on the ocassion of certificate award ceremony.
The certificate award ceremony was attended by Robert Myers, ICITAP Advisor for SIPA Special Support Unit and Frank Teixeira, FBI Legal Attaché.