The police-related activities of the OSCE executive structures are based on a steadily growing list of mandates and tasks, which have been provided by various Ministerial Council and Permanent Council decisions since 1998.6 In the last 11 years, the concerns that most dominated the OSCE policing agenda for post-conflict States and States in transition — e.g. terrorism, transnational crime, the negative effect of corruption on sustainable economic growth and brutal violations of human rights — led chiefly to calls for improvements in law enforcement investigative techniques, and a shift from a culture of force to a culture of service. Due to the OSCE’s comprehensive and cross-dimensional approach to the three dimensions of security, which assists participating States in understanding the connection between rule of law, economic development and stability, police-related activities have been increasingly attracting attention by the OSCE’s executive structures. In addition to the field operations and the Strategic Police Matters Unit (SPMU), the High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), as well as several thematic units within the OSCE Secretariat have included certain aspects of policing in their respective programmes. The thematic units include: the Action against Terrorism Unit (ATU); the Borders Unit (Operations Service / Borders Team in the Conflict Prevention Centre); the Gender Section; the Office of the Co-ordinator of Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA); the Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (OSR/CTHB). The topics that continued to dominate OSCE’s policing agenda in 2010, were the fight against transnational crime and terrorism and the promotion of the principles of democratic policing. OSCE police reform assistance programmes continued to focus mainly on providing assistance in strategic planning and the development of modern human resource management, developing and conducting basic and advanced police training; promoting human rights, particularly in the context of investigations, detentions and public order management; promoting police-public partnership; and enhancing regional law enforcement co-operation, particularly in the fight against trafficking in human beings and drug trafficking. This is the ninth report submitted in accordance with Decision 9, paragraph 6, of the Bucharest Ministerial Council Meeting, 4 December 2001. It describes the police-related activities of the OSCE executive structures in compliance with the Ministerial and Permanent Council Decisions and Action Plans, listed in Appendix 2. The report provides information about the activities of the SPMU and police-related activities of other thematic units in the Secretariat. Furthermore, the report gives an overview of the capacity and institution building activities undertaken by the OSCE field operations in support of their respective host-State governments. The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) Annual Report on Police-Related Activities for 2010 is attached to this report in Appendix 1. A list of contact details of the OSCE executive structures that dealt with policing issues in 2010 is attached in Appendix 3. ****** 6 14 For a comprehensive overview of the Decisions, see Appendix 2 of this report.