The Kyrgyz Police Academy Launched Mock Court Program

The Kyrgyz Police Academy Launched Mock Court Program

The Academy of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic launched a Mock court program for its students with the help of the INL-IDLO Criminal Law Enforcement Capacity Building Program. It involves students in role-playing games on the criminal process and provides hands-on training delivered by experienced teachers and judges.

“Our cadets are our future,” said Nurlan Djumashev, Academy’s Deputy Head. “We teach them the new [Criminal] Codes, and it possible that these young professionals might start teaching the experienced workers of the system, like us.”

The INL-IDLO Program helped the Academy in equipping its Mock court room and adopting the academic discipline. The first stream of students will take this course from March to May 2019, with a credit at the end. Highly qualified teachers include the Academy’s Associate Professor Tynychbek Osmonaliev and the Bishkek Sverdlov District Court’s Judge Almaz Kasymbekov.

Undergraduates of the Academy and of other higher educational institutions will take part at the National Mock court competition on the criminal process in May-June 2019. They will be judged by the judges of the Supreme Court, head of Universities, and representatives of the INL-IDLO Program.

The MIA Academy is the fourth higher education institution of the Kyrgyz Republic to adopt this international practice in its academic curriculum. With the help of US Government funded IDLO Program, academic judicial criminal and/or civil process courses are taught at the Kyrgyz National University, the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University, and the International University of Kyrgyzstan

Students Make Court Decisions

Students Make Court Decisions

Law students from 10 universities in Kyrgyzstan tested their ability to make high-quality and fair court decisions as part of the III Republican contest for drafting judicial acts, held on November 27, 2018, in Bishkek with the participation of 30 contestants-students and representatives of the judiciary.

The best team of jury recognized the students of KNU. Z. Balasagyn, the second place was taken by the team of the International University of Central Asia, and the third – by the International University of Kyrgyzstan.

“You are our replacement in the future, we are counting on you,” judge Nurgul Asanov, judge, deputy chairman of the Supreme Court of the Kyrgyz Republic, welcomed the contestants, noting the importance of the ability to prepare high-quality judicial acts.

The competition was held in the format of the game, each team studied one conditional civil case on the topic: “Loan and pledge”, prepared a draft court decision within the prescribed time, and then presented them to the competition jury, which determined the winners.

According to the organizers, the competition is aimed at strengthening legal education, and its main goal is to increase the capacity of the legal community in the field of administration of justice, improve the quality of training of specialists in the field of jurisprudence, and popularize the website act.sot.kg as a tool for work in the student and academic communities.

“For the first time I take part in such a competition and I really liked it. I used to have no practice, but now I know how to draw up court decisions, what needs to be pointed out, what needs to be paid attention to, what articles need to be guided by. This is very important for law students, it is a great contribution to us. We would like such competitions to be held more often, ”said Bazargul Kurbanova, a student at the Osh State Law Institute.

The competition, held in the building of the International University of Kyrgyzstan, was attended by 10 teams from 10 universities of the country – the Kyrgyz National University. J. Balasagyn, Kyrgyz State Law Academy, Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic, Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University, American University of Central Asia, International University of Kyrgyzstan, International University of Central Asia, Ata-Turk Ala-Too International University, Osh State Law Institute, Academy law, business, and education Jalal-Abad.

The third Republican competition for drafting judicial acts was organized jointly with the Supreme Court of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Association of Legal Clinics of Kyrgyzstan in the framework of the Trust to Court program implemented by the IDLO Kyrgyzstan branch with the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

[This content was automatically translated from the Russian language]