POLICE-RELATED ACTIVITIES OF FIELD OPERATIONS EASTERN EUROPE Police of Ukraine, prosecutors, judges of Appeal Courts and  representatives of anti-trafficking non-governmental organizations. The presentations from international speakers were complemented by further discussion in the course of three sessions, during which participants summarized their recommendations for improving interagency co-operation and elaborating strategies on how to improve anti-trafficking responses both at national and regional level. To improve public awareness on human trafficking and victim assistance during the Global and European Anti-Trafficking Days and International Day for Abolition of Slavery, the PCU helped the National Police of Ukraine produce and display 40 billboards and 4000 posters featuring warnings on the risks of trafficking. In May, during the Eurovision Song Contest held in Kyiv, the PCU, in co-operation with the MoI, the Ministry of Social Policy, the NPU and the State Border Guard Service, developed and distributed 150,000 information cards with “Dos and Don’ts” for the visitors. During 2017, the PCU continued delivering a five-day course on combatting IT-facilitated human trafficking crimes for anti-trafficking and cyber police officers. To sustain the course, it was incorporated into the curricula of state retraining programmes for anti-trafficking police officers and became part of the state training programme for cyber police officers. From 25 to 27 May, the PCU gathered representatives of NPU, prosecutors and judges from six western regions at a roundtable in Lviv on investigation and prosecution of ITfacilitated human trafficking crimes. Participants focused on increasing common understanding of links between human trafficking and cybercrime as well as supporting the PCU in the development of similar training course for prosecutors and judges. From August to September, the PCU facilitated two working group meetings, during which the training modules on IT-facilitated human trafficking crimes for prosecutors were developed. In October, two pilot training courses were conducted for 40 prosecutors from all regions of Ukraine. To increase sustainability of these efforts, the PCU gathered 20 professors from seven Ukrainian MoI educational institutions, in December, for a five-day ToT on investigation and prosecution of IT-facilitated human trafficking crimes. Cybercrime On 20 April, the PCU, jointly with the EU Advisory Mission and the Kyiv Forensic Research Institute conducted an international seminar on cybercrime investigation and digital forensics for investigators and professors from MoI Universities, at the premises of the Kyiv Forensic Research Institute. To ensure consistency of skills and knowledge within the reformed Cyberpolice, the PCU facilitated five re-training sessions of five groups of cyber police officers (each consisting of 20 officers) who undertook re-attestation procedure in March-April 2017. Overall, 101 cyberpolice inspectors and agents successfully passed the re-training programme conducted at Kharkiv University of Internal Affairs. To build upon the efforts of the re-training programmes, from 22 to 26 May and 29 May to 2 June, the PCU facilitated two five-day advanced training courses for 40 cyberpolice officers and agents, delivered by national and international experts. Training focused on analysis of cyberpolice officers’ feedback on post-training questionnaires, upon the completion of the initial training and re-training programmes. The subjects chosen for the training included intelligence from open The PCU continued to promote training of neighbourhood police police officers. The training material stronger community-policing officers. In 2017, 1800 re-attested was developed with a focus on approaches, through involving civil neighbourhood police officers community policing, combating society experts in development underwent this training in 11 regions domestic violence, protection of and implementation of police of Ukraine. human rights, including children’s training programmes. A 98-hour rights, and other practical aspects retraining programme for the The PCU also supported the of daily neighbourhood policing. In reformed neighbourhood police, development of a four-month 2017, 620 cadets completed such designed with PCU assistance in programme (688 hours in total) for training in eight different regions of 2016, was further used for re- newly recruited neighbourhood Ukraine. 105