Correctional Service Solomon Islands Commissioner Mactus Forau recently attends the Asia Pacific Conference of Correctional Administrators (APCCA) 2024 in Hong Kong, China.
This year’s APCCA, themed “Collaboration for Sustainable and High-quality Development”, was attended by about 140 Correctional Chiefs and representatives from 30 Asia-Pacific countries and regions, as well as representatives of relevant professional organisations.
Commissioner Forau says this year conference covered topics in five specialised areas namely; Challenges and initiatives in corrections, Training, fostering and developing staff: Ensuring a professional, accountable and supportive culture, Technology as an aid to reducing prison violence, and to managing and rehabilitating offenders in prison and the community, Working with families and communities to improve rehabilitation and reintegration, and How to design, construct and operate prisons in a more environmentally friendly way”.
He adds during the Conference, participants actively engaged in discussions and exchanges among one another. They also visited correctional institutions in Hong Kong to learn about Smart Prison development in Hong Kong and diversified rehabilitation programmes of the Correctional Services Department.
Solomon Islands has been a member and regular participant in the Asia Pacific Conference of Correctional Administrators and has benefitted from the various cooperation’s established over the years.
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