on
witness protection as an indispensable tool in the fight against organised
crime and terrorism in Europe, the Parliamentary Assembly recommends
that the Committee of Ministers:
1.1 take
stock of the implementation of its Recommendation Rec(2005)9 on
the protection of witnesses and collaborators of justice;
1.2 undertake a comprehensive study on the design and operation
of witness protection programmes in all Council of Europe member
States, in particular with respect to incentives for co-operation
of collaborators of justice, in order to harmonise, where necessary,
rules for the transnational implementation of such measures;
1.3 encourage member States to collect and share statistics
on the results of co-operation of witnesses and collaborators of
justice with the investigative and judicial authorities, in particular
the number of convictions based on their testimonies.
