On September 17, 2018, the meeting of the university administration, staff and students with Ivan Noskevich, the Chairperson of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Belarus, was held at PSU campus in Mezhdurechye.
We learned the details of the visit from an interview with Irina Vegera, the Dean of the Faculty of Law.
– Tell us about the purpose of the Chairperson’s visit to Polotsk State University, please.
– First, it should be noted that on April 26, 2016, 16 representatives of government authorities of republican, oblast and regional levels, as well as educational establishments and other organizations supported the creation of Regional Scientific and Practical Juridical Centre that is a new form of cooperation and interaction of education, science and practice.
The Juridical Centre, created on the basis of the Faculty of Law at Polotsk State University, unites a wide range of activity directions. Moreover, it is a ground for cooperation aimed at the creation of innovative education, research and information environment in the sphere of legal education, which is based on the principle of education, science and practice interaction.
The Investigative Committee of the Republic of Belarus is one of the founders and the main participants of the Juridical Centre. Today’s visit demonstrates that the Committee is interested in the implementation of the goals and objectives that were set when creating the Juridical Centre. Current problems of specialists training for the work at a pretrial investigation agency, modern tendencies of the activity development of the Investigation Committee as well as perspective directions of cooperation between the University and the Investigation Committee as part of the activity of the Juridical Centre were discussed during the visit.
– What are the results of today’s meeting?
– The Chairperson of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Belarus has learnt how the Juridical Centre works, how the cooperation with the Pretrial Investigation Agency develops and what results we have now.
The cooperation between the Faculty of Law and the Pretrial Investigation Agency moved to a new level after opening of the Juridical Centre. We are in contact with both the Department of Vitebsk Regional Investigative Committee of the Republic of Belarus and Novopolotsk City and Polotsk interdistrict Departments of the Investigative Committee. The personnel is willing to continue the cooperation with the Faculty of Law in the areas connected with the educational process and implementation of practice-oriented methods of teaching: they give lectures and seminars, work with students who are doing their practical training, they participate in final state examinations, listen to the graduation papers presentations. Every year, the Faculty of Law hosts scientific and practical conferences, workshops and seminars where the crime investigators inform students about their work in detail, about the requirements for a specialist; they point out the problems and give advice on improvement of students training.
The new ideas and directions of cooperation development were discussed during the visit. I hope we will manage to implement them together with the Investigative Committee. This includes the professional orientation work with the schoolchildren. Such work is necessary to find young people who see themselves crime investigators in future and to help them in preparation for this job. Besides, we discussed the questions of further implementation of a practice-oriented approach and new interesting forms of experts engagement into the educational process and students’ skill practice on the basis of both the Faculty of Law and the Departments of the Investigative Committee.
We are glad that the Faculty of Law cooperates with the Investigative Committee, because mutual understanding and focus on results are the factors that allow us to develop successfully this cooperation.
Interviewer: Daria Alekseyeva
Photos: Polina Kosarevskaya