Human Rights and Police In 2010, the Office included approximately 24 representatives of the MIA in human rights activities throughout the year in order to raise awareness about key human rights issues related to policing and security agencies and to facilitate dialogue between government and non-government actors involved in the field of human rights. The Office is further planning with ODIHR how to reinforce and build the capacity of police managers to understand and protect human rights while countering terrorism. In June, the Office joined forces with the ODIHR and other Central Asian field operations to host the “Expert Forum on Criminal Justice for Central Asia”. Over 120 participants, including sizable high-level government delegations from Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, attended the twoday meeting dedicated to key reforms in the area of criminal justice. Only two and a half months after Tajikistan’s new criminal procedure code went into effect, the Expert Forum provided an opportunity for Tajikistan policymakers, legal practitioners and law enforcement officials to learn practical lessons from the experience of neighbouring countries in implementing judicial authorization for pre-trial detention and other investigative measures. Discussions featured active participation of local, regional and international experts on topics including the role of evidentiary rules for upholding equality of arms, approaches to the reform of administrative offences, alternatives to criminal prosecution and people’s participation in the administration of justice. In early July, the OiT, the Department on Constitutional Guarantees of Citizen Rights in the Executive Office of the President, the international NGO “Helvetas”, and the local NGO “Nota Bene” co-sponsored a discussion of the government report on the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The Government of Tajikistan had ratified the Convention in 1995. 20 civil society representatives reviewed the draft report to the UN Committee Against Torture and presented comments and recommendations to members of the government' s interagency working group that prepared the draft. The group also discussed implementation of the 2006 conclusions and recommendations of the United Nations Committee against Torture to the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan and how they were addressed in the new report covering the period 2007-2010. In July, the annual "Preparatory Human Dimension Implementation Meeting", organized by the Office, included two 90-minute sessions specifically addressing policing and criminal justice: one on freedom from torture and rights of persons deprived of liberty, and another on prevention of domestic violence. In October, the Office, in co-operation with the Open Society Institute, supported the participation of a large delegation from Tajikistan to the Warsaw Review Conference sessions on rule of law, with special focus on issues in criminal justice. Each of the eleven Tajik participants in those sessions made statements for the publicly-available record. Among the government participants taking the floor in those sessions were the State Adviser to the President of Tajikistan on Legal Policy; the Head of the Department on Constitutional Guarantees of Citizens'Rights, Executive Office of the President; Head of the National Legislative Center; Deputy Director of the Council of Justice; Head of the General Prosecutor' s Training Institute; and the Deputy Head of the Department of Correctional Facilities, Ministry of Justice. Trafficking in Human Beings Throughout 2010, the Office worked closely with the Police Academy of the MIA in developing a 26-hour anti-trafficking course that was incorporated into the standard programme of the Academy. The course focuses on co-operative and proactive investigation of transnational human trafficking cases and the protection of victims. Special attention was 104