On 21 April, the Office held a regional community policing workshop in Ganja. The workshop brought together senior police officers of Ganja, Mingechevir, Yevlakh, Tar-Tar and Gazakh cities and regions to discuss the implementation of community policing and its perspectives in Azerbaijan. The workshop was also a preparatory meeting for the first International Community Policing Conference to be held in Baku on 10-11 June 2010. On 3 May, the Office' s new community expert was deployed to Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (NAR) to continue the community policing initiative that started in March 2010. On 18 May, two of the Office’s community policing experts gave presentations at the Police Academy on the subjects of community policing and domestic violence. From 24-27 May, two of the Office’s community policing experts escorted a group of six senior Azerbaijani officials to Skopje to observe community policing practices in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The activity, conducted in co-operation with the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje, focused on the development of community advisory groups as well as how to best institutionalize the direction of community policing at the national and local headquarters level. On 10-11 June, the Office facilitated the first “International Community Policing Conference” in Azerbaijan. International experts shared their experiences with their Azerbaijani counterparts. The conference was attended by some 100 representatives of various Ministries, Government agencies, civil society groups, police, NGO' s and the media. Between 30 June and 2 July, the Office organized the celebration of Police Open Days in Mingechevir, Quba, Khachmaz and Shabran. This annual event was established with the support of the Office as part of the Community Policing Project since 2006, and became a major community-wide event in Azerbaijan. On 7-20 July, the Office had a series of meetings with the chiefs of neighbourhood policing at the Mingechevir, Gazakh, Yevlakh, Ganja and Sheki project sites. During the meetings, the Office’s police expert made presentations on community policing and neighbourhood policing. The presentations focused on two key elements of community policing: partnerships and problem solving, and discussed the role of community advisory groups and neighbourhood police in the implementation of the community policing project. On 20-21 July, the Office conducted a theoretical training on community policing for neighbourhood police officers of Nakhchivan city. The training was attended by 16 middlerank officers, and covered current international best practices in community policing such as the implementation of police-community partnership and functions of citizens advisory groups. On 22 July, the Office held a regional community policing workshop in Khachmaz. The workshop brought together senior police officers from Khachmaz, Guba and Shabran cities and the regions to discuss the implementation of community policing and its perspectives in Azerbaijan. The workshop was a follow-up meeting of the first international community policing conference in June 2010. On 13-23 August, the Office' s community police expert resident in Mingechevir conducted an “Anti-Drugs Seminar” for Police officers of Mingechevir and Yevlakh. The seminar brought together relevant officers and neighbourhood Police officers of the Departments, included presentations on anti-drug activities and vehicle search, and shared the practices of other participating States. On 30 September, the Office delivered a one-day training session on crime scene control and investigation techniques to a group of 18 middle ranking police officers of Nakhchivan. 73