POLICE-RELATED ACTIVITIES OF FIELD OPERATIONS SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE gives an assessment and definition of priorities in the MoI’s work for the period 2017-2021. It laid the groundwork for operational assessments conducted at regional level and creation of respective strategic plans. The Serbian Intelligence-led Policing Manual is another strategically important document published in 2017. The publishing of the manual marked an important step towards the introduction of the intelligence-led policing model in the work of the police in Serbia, which would enhance police capabilities in responding to new security threats and challenges such as terrorism, cybercrime and new forms of organized crime. The Government adopted the National Strategy for the Prevention and Combating the Trafficking in Human Beings especially women and children, and for the protection of victims for the period 2017-2022. The Mission was active in improving quality of support to THB victims, with a specific focus on the referral mechanism and right to reflection. The Mission facilitated a series of bilateral and trilateral meetings between police services from SouthEastern Europe to increase the co-operation on cases of smuggling of human beings. From 9 to 10 November, a hexa-lateral regional operational meeting was organized in Belgrade for representatives of the Serbian Task Force on Combating Human Smuggling and prosecutors and police investigators from Bulgaria, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Hungary and Romania in charge of investigating and prosecuting organized crime groups dealing with smuggling of migrants. The Mission supported the Serbian inter-ministerial working group tasked with the development of the National Strategy for the Prevention and Countering of Terrorism for the period 2017– 2021 and its action plan. The Mission supported the MoI in developing the new Strategy and Action Plan to Control Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) in the Republic of Serbia in the Period 2018-2023, based on the Mission’s 2017 situation analysis on SALW control in Serbia. On 12 and 13 October, the Mission organized the Third Meeting of the Permanent Conference of Organized Crime Prosecutors (eleven prosecution services), in Rome, Italy. Its aim was to promote multilateral co-operation and information sharing to tackle organized crime and terrorism. In addition to sharing best practices in the prosecution of cases, the third meeting resulted in the institutionalization of the Permanent Conference, through the establishment of a rotating secretariat to be hosted by Serbia for the next four years. In the area of community policing, the Mission continued to focus on three key activities: crime prevention, working with minorities and socially vulnerable groups and promoting police-public partnerships through Municipal Safety Councils (MSC). Prevention of domestic violence and combating violence against women featured high on the local safety stakeholders’ agenda. The Mission continued to support the implementation of the UNSC resolution 1325 by promoting its values at the local level, mainly in the south-west Serbia. The PAD developed co-operation with international organization including UNODC, UNHCR and UNDP/South Eastern Europe Small Arms Control (SEESAC) the ICITAP, civil society organizations (CSOs) (the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, the European Research Academy Belgrade and the Impuls, Tutin) and academic institutions such as the University of Milan and the University of Sarajevo. Additionally, the Mission continued co-operation with the MoI of the Russian Federation i.e. its Institute for Professional Development based in Domodedovo, Moscow, and its University located in S. Petersburg, thus implementing joint activities in the area of trafficking in human beings and drug trafficking. 79