The Judicial Academy is in cooperation with USAID- in Nis on May 28 and 29, 2024, at the Tami Rezident Hotel, organized a two-day training entitled: "Abuses in public procurement and red flag methodology". The training was intended for prosecutors and police from the area of ​​the Niš appeal. 

The training covered the following topics:

-    Public procurement forensics,
-    Potential abuses in the preparation phase for planning public procurement procedures and drafting and adopting the Public Procurement Plan,
-    Potential abuses in the phase of implementation of procurement procedures to which the Law on Public Procurement does not apply,
-    Potential abuses in the process of preparing tender documents, including technical specifications,
-    Potential abuses in the conduct of the public procurement procedure, expert evaluation of bids with reference to legal protection,
-    Pointing out potential abuses in the elements of the contract on public procurement, execution and changes to the contract,
-    The application of general and special red flags on the Public Procurement Portal and the presentation of the Report intended for the police and prosecutor's office on the implementation of the Manual for the application of risk assessment methodology in public procurement,
-    Using the available filters on the Portal and applying the risk matrix - practical work,
-    Using data from the Portal when acting on criminal reports - examples of monitoring cases - practical work.

The lecturers were: 
-    Professor Dr. Marko Špiler, consultant of USAID's Project for the Improvement of Public Procurement,
-    Daliborka Srećkov, consultant of USAID's Public Procurement Improvement Project.