MOI Holds Workshop on Law Protecting Victims, Witnesses

Doha: The Ministry of Interior (MOI), in coordination with the Public Prosecution, held on Sunday a workshop on Law No. 5 of 2022 regarding the protection of victims, witnesses, and those in similar circumstances. The two-day workshop brings together a host of officers from the technical offices of MOI's departments, with officers from the protection department and a number of public prosecutors delivering lectures at this event. The workshop shines a spotlight on the program, operation mechanism, and electronic services related to the enforcement of victim and witness protection law, along with those in similar circumstances in diverse phases of the law that chiefly include gathering evidence, conducting investigations, and litigation stages. Assistant director of the protection department at the MOI, Lt. Col. Ghanem Khaled Al Hadaifi, said the workshop comprises several themes and primarily intends to introduce Law No. 5 of 2022 and the MOI's protection department and its purviews in enforcing protection measures issued from the Public Prosecution. He highlighted that the workshop features the nature of cooperation with government bodies, as well as regional and international organizations concerned with any matter related to protection measures enforcement in several crimes. Source: Qatar News Agency