green border patrolling, joint incident investigations, information exchange and ways for improvement, points of contacts and their maintenance, improvement of communication across the border - especially in case of emergencies; possible ways for making the passage of people and goods more efficient during the summer season; co-operation in dealing with illegal migrants and returnees (proper identification, handling and referral). Along with the enhancement of regional cross-border co-operation, an important element of the successful realization of the Border Police Programme is to enhance the language capacity of border police officers. In this context, the Mission organized a number of fourmonth training courses on the English and Albanian languages for 20 border police officers working at the border crossing points and as members of joint patrols. Improved language skills will enable police officers to communicate during joint patrols and joint investigations, with the international community, to attend seminars abroad and communicate with the international visitors who are coming to Montenegro. ****** 4.4 The OSCE Mission to Serbia Background The Law Enforcement Department (LED) has a mission to advise and assist the Ministry of Interior (MoI) on police reform to institutionalise democratic, accountable, effective and efficient policing practices. The co-operation with the host Government is defined in the strategic framework document – Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed between the Mission and the Ministry of Interior in 2009. The MoU outlines the following priority areas: Police Accountability; Police Training and Education; Organized Crime; Community Policing; Strategic Planning and Development; and Public Relations and Communication. In 2010, the Department was comprised of 20 international and 25 national staff. It had six international and six national staff located in field locations: the OSCE Advanced Police Training Centre in Zemun and the Basic Police Training Centre in Sremska Kamenica (Vojvodina). As in previous years, the LED faced challenges in international staff recruitment. Meeting the demand for qualified seconded international staff in priority areas of police reform is critical to the Mission’s ability to fulfil its commitments and to ensure the sustainability of investments made. The global financial crisis has further affected donors’ ability to meet the needs of police reform in Serbia. This has narrowed the LED’s opportunities to mobilise ExB contributions from varied sources, while ExBs still cover the expenses of some important strategic objectives. The reporting period confirmed the trend of growing policy-level communication with the MoI leadership, with the LED delivering strategic and policy advice to all management levels of the MoI. As a result, the LED applied stronger focus on key themes of institutional support, with more intense linkages between the six priority areas from the revised MoU signed in 2009. 53