IMPLEMENTATION OF MENDEZ'S PRINCIPLES IN OFFICIAL FORMS OF COMMUNICATION IN PERSONAM BY REPRESENTATIVES OF STATE AGENCIES IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA
Keywords:
Mendez principles, investigative interviewing, law enforcement communication, international communication principles, criminal investigationAbstract
Purpose: Authors are elaborating on the Mendez principles adopted by UN in 2022 as one of very important worldwide accepted principles in communication with state agencies. Design/Methods/Approach: Authors are presenting principles and their importance in preventing mistreatment of the citizen and enforcement of human rights and freedoms when communicating with state agencies of any kind, with special emphasizing in criminal law enforcement agencies. Principles are depicted in the basic relation to the tackling guaranties promised by state legal system from international prZinciples carved in the UN charter, all international conventions and covenants and in the internal laws and bylaws.
Findings: In the article authors are faced with significant resistance by all actors at the side of state agencies, wich represents the normal resistance to new methods and new techniques which are not existing in the actual practice of law enforcement agencies, but there is a subculture, also, which is resisting the change. Also, there is a citizen hope to get treatment promised by national and international legislation and craving to have existing conditions more convenient to common public and individuals.
Originality/Value: Authors are also challenging non existing overall principles in the communication of state agencies with citizen and providing area to implement principles in Serbian discourse, from theoretical but also from practical point of view. Non-existing principles in the practice but also in the theory provide fertile ground for the seed of Mendez principles to be planted in the Serbian legal system and practice of law enforcement agencies. Both authors are involved in the Cost action 22128 Implemendez project about implementing Mendez principles within countries systems firstly with those that have joined statement of Chili in 2022, but also supported by UN Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT), but also Council of Europe Committee for Prevention of Torture or Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) and other countries.
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