According to the approved OSCE unified budget the Department’s staffing table for 2010 included 17 international and 30 national positions. The staffing situation was slightly better than in previous years but the Department still struggled to fill several international positions. This was primarily due to a shortage of qualified seconded candidates. Due to severe budget cuts in 2010, the Department focused much more on using internal capacity in conducting training courses, advising and mentoring its counterparts from the Kosovo police (Kp), the independent oversight body and other public safety institutions. Despite the decrease of financial funding in 2010, the Department conducted 33 projects financed through the unified budget and 3 projects that had no budget implications. The overall tendency in the Department’s activity was focusing on specialized and advanced training, custom made for the respective units or teams of the Kp, other public safety agencies and civil society, while maintaining the same level of involvement in drafting/amending the legislation or policies relevant for public safety and security. Accountability In 2010, the Department completed the stage of monitoring the inspection and investigation procedures conducted by the Police Inspectorate of Kosovo (PIK). The Department shifted focused solely on providing technical assistance and advising the management of the PIK. As in previous years, the Department assisted the PIK in reviewing its ordinary and extraordinary inspection reports, prior to those being sent to the relevant stakeholders and subsequently published in the forthcoming Annual Report. The Department continued to support the academic training on accounting for inspectors in order to enhance the specific skills that PIK requires to oversee the accountability of the Kp. The training covered issues of financial accounting, managerial and cost accounting, laws and taxes in Kosovo/UNMIK, deemed as vital topics in their auditing mandate. With the aim of improving the performance of the PIK, the Mission contributed to the drafting and approval process of the new Law on PIK. Mission’s experts focused on keeping the new law in line with the applicable European standards, thereby preserving the structure of the agency as it was established by the OSCE in 2006. The Mission has also equipped the PIK with more then 70 selected professional and educational books, which will enable the PIK to further expand their knowledge of human rights, police oversight, internal affairs, crime investigation and police management areas. Training Development During 2010, the Department, through its Training Development Section (TDS), was actively involved in supporting public safety agencies in capacity building by offering training, advice and expertise on training related issues, with a special emphasis in advanced and specialized, management and leadership training programmes. The Department supported the public safety agencies with training, consultancy, training needs assessment, curriculum development, revision and further development of the existing training and train the trainer programmes. In order to support a sustainable, transparent and accountable public security sector in 2010, the Department offered specific training programmes to public safety agencies in the field of managing extreme operations, which ended with a real-time final exercise using the crisis simulation centre. In addition, a forensic training was held enabling Kp experts to extract DNA from bones and teeth. Further projects were conducted in the field of specialized 38