TIJ Hosted the Consultative Group Meeting for the 3^rd ACCPCJ

The 2^nd Consultative Group Meeting (CGM), held on the 7-8 March 2022 in Phuket, Thailand, was a hybrid meeting organized by the Thailand Institute of Justice, the designated coordinator for the preparations of the 3^rd ASEAN Conference on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (ACCPCJ). The 3^rd ACCPCJ will be held in mid-2022 in Thailand.

The Meeting was attended by ASEAN Member States’ representatives from ASEAN Senior Law Officials’ Meeting (ASLOM), Senior Officials’ Meeting for the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (SOCA),  Senior Officials’ Meeting on Transnational Crime (SOMTC), and the Senior Officials’ Meeting of the Central Authorities on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters (SOM-MLAT), and ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Youth (SOMY), while Thailand’s representatives are from the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Office of the Attorney General, Court of Justice and Royal Thai Police, and Nitivajra Institute.  

The 2^nd CGM was successfully concluded that the 3^rd ACCPCJ will be focusing on the theme: “Responding to Crime and Justice Challenges amidst ASEAN Recovery from the Covid-19 Crisis,” especially, the Covid-19 pandemic impact on the economy and society. In the same vein, the 3^rd ACCPCJ also aims to explore the impact of the pandemic on the justice and law sectors of ASEAN and how ASEAN Member States can promote crime prevention and criminal justice as a means to complement the relevant Broad Strategies of the ASEAN Comprehensive Recovery Framework (ACRF).

Moreover, the substantive issues to be discussed at the 3^rd ACCPCJ were decided, namely: (i) cybercrime, (ii) justice reforms, and (iii) international cooperation.