through co-ordination meetings with representatives of
the OSCE field operations, held in Vienna, South-Eastern
Europe and Central Asia. TNTD/SPMU provided assistance
to participating States and field operations in the areas
of police development and reform and the fight against
transnational crime, through assessments, development
of guidance material, capacity-building, training courses,
conferences and workshops. Nearly two thirds of all TNTD/
SPMU activities were dedicated to addressing threats posed
by criminal activity, with an emphasis on intelligence-led
policing, illicit drugs and chemical precursors, trafficking in
human beings and migration-related crime and cybercrime.
Other TNTD/SPMU areas of focus included police
development and reform, cross-border co-operation in
criminal matters and counter-terrorism investigations.
The Action against Terrorism Unit (TNTD/ATU) continued
its capacity-building activities on counter-terrorism-related
work. The unit promoted the international legal framework
and co-operation in criminal matters related to terrorism
through a number of roundtables, workshops, training
courses and conferences. Significant attention was devoted
to events and exercises related to national risk assessments
and crisis situation management on non-nuclear critical
energy infrastructure protection. Furthermore, TNTD/ATU
organized and delivered several capacity-building activities
aiming at strengthening criminal justice responses to terrorism
financing, the threat of foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) and
P/C VERLT.
The Borders Security and Management Unit (TNTD/
BSMU) continued to strengthen the OSCE Border Security
and Management National Focal Points Network, along
with providing training and capacity development activities
to border security and management services of participating
States and Partners for Co-operation. Furthermore,
TNTD/BSMU provided front-line officers with training
on detecting forgery of travel documents. In 2017, TNTD/
BSMU organized three deployment missions of the newly
established OSCE Mobile Training Team delivering on-site
training on identifying and interviewing potential FTFs.
The Gender Section assisted the OSCE’s executive structures
in promoting a gender perspective in police-related activities
in line with UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325
on Women, Peace and Security. As a part of this process, the
OSCE Secretariat developed the Implementation Roadmap
2017-2020 to guide the work of departments and units along
the lines of the OSCE 2004 Action Plan for the Promotion of
Gender Equality. The Gender Section continued to raise the
awareness of the OSCE staff and participating States on gender
issues by organizing side events during OSCE meetings.
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In 2017, the Economic Governance Unit of the Office of
the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental
Activities (OCEEA) continued to be involved in policerelated activities while addressing a wide range of issues
regarding good governance, anti-corruption and antimoney laundering. The Office co-operated closely with
relevant thematic units at the Secretariat, the OSCE field
operations and partner organizations, such as United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the World
Bank, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the
Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and the
Financing of Terrorism (EAG).
The Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator
for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (OSR/CTHB)
co-operated closely with TNTD/SPMU in combating
human trafficking and migration-related crime. The OSR/
CTHB focused on fostering the exchange of experience
between criminal justice institutions on the prosecution
of trafficking offenders, as well as protection of victims
and the investigation of sexual crimes. Moreover, the
Office continued to organize capacity-building events for
prosecutors, law enforcement officers, lawyers, military
personnel and border guards.
Activities of Field Operations
In South-Eastern Europe, some 70% of all police-related
activities focused on police development and reform, with
gender and ethnic mainstreaming, community policing and
gender-based and domestic violence being the main areas.
The largest proportion of activities related to threats posed
by criminal activity focused on trafficking in human beings,
counter-terrorism and P/C VERLT, and border security.
While the clear majority (62-75%) of all activities organized
by the OSCE Presence in Albania, OSCE Mission to Bosnia
and Herzegovina, OSCE Mission to Montenegro, OSCE
Mission to Serbia and OSCE Mission to Skopje addressed
threats posed by criminal activities, some three quarters of all
activities delivered by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo focused
on police development and reform.
In Eastern Europe, the OSCE Mission to Moldova
concentrated slightly over 75% of police-related activities on
police development and reform in the area of gender-based
and domestic violence, and the remaining 25% of activities
on trafficking in human beings and migration-related crime.
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine delivered an
even amount of police-related activities in both police
development and reform and addressing threats posed by
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