Let's work together: Experience of the common training of officals for the legal system reform in Lithuania

Difficulties, which were met in the process of the Community Policing philosophy implementation into the practice in Lithuania call for search of the new ways for common countrywide interpretations. In the field of community problem - solving activities functions of the public administration institutions were strictly separated. How to find the proper institutional model, which could be able to cover community problems solving area both without function duplication and with real supportive interaction of the institutions? Consequently it was argued that the creation of such institutional model couldn't be successful without preliminary readiness. Training of the officials, which are responsible for the creation of the model is the first step towards the general goal. Common training of the officials in the Community Policing matters in the Law Academy of Lithuania took start in the beginning of 1999 under the TEMPUS Phare Joint European Project. Senior police officers and other civil servants, which are responsible for the policymaking in their home institutions, were invited to the training. Policy makers had the possibility both to get actually worldwide information and discuss common problems under a kind of "academic supervision". The results of the common training are presented in the following paper.