Principles of democratic policing were also promoted through the continuing distribution of
SPMU’s key publications to the OSCE field operations, and through holding a regional
workshop on Democratic Policing in Sarajevo.
SPMU training projects focused on facilitating and providing training in investigating
Trafficking in Human Beings and in combating illicit drugs and precursors, the latter including
training courses for Afghan law enforcement officers which were organized in close cooperation with participating States, Afghan authorities, other OSCE executive structures and
the international community.
The SPMU was also very active in dealing with organized crime issues, organizing and
participating in a number of high-level meetings and workshops that focused on promoting
regional co-operation in fighting transnational crime, including cyber crime.
Utilizing and further enhancing its Policing Online Information System, the SPMU also
continued serving as a main collection point and central repository for OSCE police-related
institutional knowledge, providing the platform for sharing information resulting from OSCE
activities, from local initiatives and from development work of other international
organizations and agencies.
Enhanced Programmatic Coordination in Addressing Transnational Threats (TNT)
Following up on Athens Ministerial Council Decision 02/09 and the Report 2010 by the OSCE
Secretary General on the Implementation of MC.DEC/2/09 on Further OSCE Efforts to
Adress Transnational Threats and Challenges to Security and Stability the thematic units in
the Secretariat, including the SPMU, maintained and enhanced co-operation in jointly
conducting events such as trainings, workshops or conferences on TNT issues, many of
which involved police-related activities. Co-operation was also strengthened with other
OSCE executive structures and international partner organizations, under the overall
coordination of the Director of the Office of the Secretary General and the OSG Senior Policy
Planning Officer.
The Action against Terrorism Unit continued supporting and promoting national and
international legal frameworks for the fight against terrorism and organized crime through a
series of sub-regional and national workshops in co-operation with the UNODC.
Specific attention was directed towards enhancing legal co-operation in the OSCE area in
criminal matters related to terrorism; and on capacity-building of border police/guards and
customs officials in the fields of Travel Document Security (TDS) and Container Supply
Chain (CSC) security in a number of participating States.
The OS Borders Team in the CPC focused primarily on supporting various capacity-building
events within the new OSCE Border Management Staff College in Tajikistan; on providing
training sessions on Travel Document Security, Drug Trafficking and Trafficking in Human
Beings for border police/guards and customs officers from a number of participating States
and Afghanistan.
The Gender Section in the Office of the Secretary General continued providing assistance to
integrate a gender perspective in police-related activities of the OSCE as well as in National
Police Strategies of participating States. The Section also continued to promote gender
mainstreaming in police-public partnerships by distributing an English and Russian version of
the factsheet on Integrating a Gender Approach into Policy-Public Partnerships.
The police-related activities of the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and
Environmental Activities focused primarily on raising awareness of the participating States on
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