operations in South-Eastern Europe facilitated the participation of high-level delegations from their respective host countries. The workshop focused on various aspects of police reform, such as the planning and implementing of reform, the issue of decentralization, as well as key aspects of supervision and human resource management. The workshop brought together 44 policy makers, police experts, prosecutors and NGOs from eight countries and five international organizations. In May 2010, the SPMU, jointly with the ODIHR Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues (CPRSI), published the manual on Police and Roma and Sinti: Good Practices in Building Trust and Understanding. The manual aims to assist participating States in implementing their commitments under the OSCE Action Plan on Improving the Situation of Roma and Sinti within the OSCE Area by identifying principles and good practices that can be used in efforts to improve relations between the police and Roma and Sinti communities and to enhance police response to racially motivated crimes against Roma and Sinti. On 23 November, a SPMU representative presented the manual at a “Roma Round table Conference” in Budapest, organized by the Hungarian Government and the ODIHR. By the end of 2010, the SPMU and the CPRSI jointly prepared a Russian version of the manual, which was planned to be printed in 2011. On 8-9 June, the SPMU participated in an “International Conference on Community Policing” in Baku. The event, which was organized by the OSCE Office in Baku, gathered senior police officers from Azerbaijan and international experts. The objective was to introduce to the authorities in Azerbaijan different methods of implementing community policing. The SPMU representatives focused on the benefits of community policing practices for police officers and services, as well as for the society. The presentation also highlighted the challenges of putting the philosophy of community policing into practice (see also 4.9). As part of a series of activities of the OSCE with the Belarusian Ministry of the Interior that derived from the 2009 regional workshop on democratic policing in Minsk, the SPMU, from 13-17 September, facilitated a community policing study tour for Belarusian officials to Hungary. The aim was to familiarize participants with the existing practices of community policing in Hungary. In particular, the emphasis was on practical aspects and lessons learned in establishing and maintaining co-operation and partnership between the police and society (approaches, forms, methods, etc). The members of the delegation, with the support of the SPMU, prepared a comprehensive report, including findings and recommendations, which were presented and discussed at a national round table organized in Minsk on 21 October. This workshop gathered representatives from the OSCE, the MIA and civil society. From 11-15 October, the SPMU, in co-operation with the Office in Minsk, provided support to the Belarusian MIA in organizing a course on pedagogical techniques. Two Hungarian experts provided the training to 20 participants from the Belarusian MIA. From 22-26 November, the SPMU also supported a training of Belarusian police officers in “Behaviour Control in Stressful Situations” in Budapest. The one-week course was implemented at the International Training Centre of the Hungarian Ministry of the Interior for six Belarusian police officers. In October, the SPMU assisted the Belarus government in their request for OSCE assistance to send forensic experts to the country to review case material related to the death of a journalist. The SPMU identified two experts (from Norway and Sweden) to carry out the review from 25-29 October. The Belarus authorities provided access to all investigative materials and evidence. The local authorities also assisted the experts in meeting with a 17