police managers to apply the theory of strategic planning in practice. The workshop provided detailed introduction into Strategic and Alternative Thinking to widen the thinking ability of the participants and covered aspects such as analytical, conceptual, creative, critical and intuitive thinking. In addition, a brainstorming session was followed by exercises. As part of the strategic planning workshop, two public relations experts, specialized on organizational change, conducted interviews to produce a police reform promotion film for the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This promotion film, together with a public relation training was planned to increase the knowledge of Senior and Mid-Management Police Officers on utilizing a public relations strategy to promote police reform internally and attract donors and international partners to support the police reform efforts. On 31 August, the OiT organized a meeting with representatives from the MIA, MoJ, MoF, MoE&D, as well as SCNS, and Customs Services to finalize the MoU on Police Reform between the OSCE and the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan. By the end of 2010, however, the MoU was still not signed. It was expected that the MoU would be finally signed in spring 2011. The National Border Strategy and its Implementation Plan, developed with technical assistance by the Office, was adopted by the Government on 29 April 2010. On the side of the Tajik Government, the development of the Strategy was led by a National Border Strategy Coordinator (first deputy head of the State Committee on National Security), and by a National Border Strategy Working Group (NBSWG). The NBSWG consisted of midmanagement level members from various agencies, including the Drug Control Agency (DCA) and the following three departments at the Ministry of the Interior: Immigration Department, Department of Public Security and Department of Counter Narcotics. Other member agencies included Border Troops, Customs Service, Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Consular Department, Ministry of Health/Phyto-Sanitary Service, Ministry of Agriculture/Veterinary Service, and Ministry of Transportation. The new Strategy provides border and law-enforcement agencies with a clear policy framework for the period 20102025. The objective is to strengthen border security, while developing commercial and economic activities, and to respect human rights. The importance of co-operation between border and law-enforcement agencies in the fight against cross-border crime was stressed throughout the strategy development process. Thus, the final adopted National Border Strategy and its Implementation Plan highlight the importance of inter-agency co-operation and set a number of tasks which directly impact the Law Enforcement Agencies of the MIA and DCA. In 2009 the Office had started a project to develop the training system of the Border Troops Academy. A training needs assessment had been conducted, covering areas such as current training programmes, the development of the teaching staff, inter-agency co-operation, as well as anti-corruption, gender and human rights issues. In 2010, in line with the recommendations of the needs assessment report, the Office provided assistance for the Border Troops Academy in the improvement of teachers’ professional skills, the development of new courses for the curricula, and the enhancement of training related inter-agency cooperation. The first of the 2010 activities – a Study Visit to Finland on training-related cooperation between the Police, Border Guards and Customs – was organized in May with the participation of the directors and staff of the Tajik Border and Law-enforcement training institutes: Border Troops Academy, Academy of the State Committee on National Security, Customs Institute and Police Academy. In order to enhance training related inter-agency cooperation, all of the 2010 training activities were organized with the participation of the above mentioned training institutes benefiting all participating agencies. This included a one-week training in Curriculum Development, a Training of Trainers (ToT) in Trainer Skills, a ToT in Anti-corruption Awareness and Response and a ToT in Human Trafficking Awareness. In the Human Trafficking Awareness course the Police Academy was not only represented by students but also by assistant trainers, who had been trained in 2010 by the OiT’s Human Dimension Department in Human Trafficking Investigation. Moreover, the curricula and 101