requirement is that personnel shall have opportunities to further deepen their knowledge. This implies, on its turn, that relevant trainings and courses be offered at various intervals. Especially important is to train the staff in human rights approaches and human rights-based prison management methods. Ministry employees Penitentiary Department employees Prison employees Qualifications and level of experience of the penitentiary system peronnel remain one of the major challenges faced by the Georgian penitentiary system. Prison staff were provided with various training opportunities in 2014. Information about trainings49 more or less related to human rights, order and security is provided in the below table: 11 Use of firearms 10 67 0 22 Training for the escort service members; use of firearms 1 38 0 33 A beginning basic training for employees of remand facilities and places of deprivation of liberty (regime) 0 0 120 44 Team working methods (phase I) 0 0 16 55 Bullying; prevention of bulling (phase II) 0 0 19 66 Art therapy (phase III) 0 0 18 77 Improving survival skills; carrier planning and getting ready for employement (phase IV) 0 0 17 # 49 Training topics The data have been taken from the official webpage of the Penitentiary and Probation Training Center at http://pptc.ge/cms/site_images/pdf/angarisi/PPTC%20Report%202014%20GEO.pdf [last viewed 21.03.2015]. NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM OF GEORGIA 37