POLICE-RELATED ACTIVITIES OF FIELD OPERATIONS SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE of a policewoman as a role-model. At the end of each event, participants received brochures containing detailed information on recruitment and selection procedures, and promotional items. Police officials in all regions encouraged participants to further disseminate the information and apply to join the KP once the call for recruitment is announced. This activity is expected to increase the number of representatives of these groups in the KP recruitment process. Community Policing, Police-Public Relations and Crime Prevention On 15 February, the Mission facilitated a planning workshop for the members of Community Safety Coordination Office (CSCO)3 and their partners. The workshop gathered 12 participants to exchange planned activities of the MoIA, KP Directorate for Community Policing, the Mission and ICITAP in the community safety field. In addition, participants discussed ways to increase the capacities of the CSCO and collaboration among all stakeholders in relation to community safety forums in 2017. Furthermore, during the workshop the CSCO presented an established platform of activities that will be delivered during the year, with the contribution of all relevant actors working on community safety issues. In addition and within the auspices of the “Skopje Process on durable solutions for displaced persons from Kosovo”, the Mission's DHRC of the Mission, in conjunction with UNHCR, organized three co-ordination meetings of the implementation working groups and 17 meetings of the implementation sub-working groups on Security, Dialogue and Reintegration, Personal Documentation and Property. The meetings were attended by 45 regular representatives of relevant institutions, including seven representatives of the KP and MoIA. After the adoption of the Action Point document by the technical working group in March 2017, the sub-working group on Security, Dialogue and Reintegration developed and adopted the “Guidelines on responses by local level mechanisms to incidents affecting communities”, to be shared by the Ministry for Communities and Return municipal offices for communities. In 2018, all working groups will meet once every two months in order to continue with developments of the action points. 3 Community Safety Coordination Office established within the Ministry of Internal Affairs serves as a single umbrella for the co-ordination and support of all future community safety fora activities, including the establishment and revitalization training requirements, project action planning, executive councils, archives, membership validation, and all other associated activities that require the Ministry’s co-ordination and support. From March and October, the DHRC of the Mission held events in Vushtrri/Vučitrn, Prizren, Rahovec/Orahovac, Mitrovica/Mitrovicë North, Gjilan/Gnjilane, Klinë/Klina and Novo Brdo/Novobërdë, to discuss security concerns of community members and the responses provided by municipal leadership, Municipal Community Safety Councils (MCSC)4, communities and youth. These seven events were attended by municipal representatives, MCSC members, KP officers, prosecutors, youth representatives, civil society, and community members. A total of 25 police representatives attended the meetings. They actively participated by providing updates on the security situation in their respective municipalities, and responding to concerns raised by community members. On 30 June and 14 December, the Mission provided its expertise and supported the KP in facilitating two bi-annual workshops to review the implementation of the Community Policing Strategy and Action Plan 2017-2021. During these events, senior central and regional police managers, representatives of KAPS, PIK, the Mission and EULEX, reviewed the progress in the implementation of the strategy’s action plan during every six month period. Representatives of various KP units presented on their contributions to the implementation of the strategy’s action plan and the Mission provided a detailed presentation on its support to the KP, including community policing training for community safety structures such as MCSC and Local Public Safety Committees (LPSC).5 Furthermore, the reviews served to identify gaps and shortcomings encountered during the implementation of the action plan, and produced concrete and realistic recommendations on how to overcome them in the future. On 8 and 9 July, the Mission supported the KAPS, Parents Organization of Children with Disabilities and the Kosovo Paralympics Committee in organizing the annual traditional Mini Olympics for people with disabilities. This year the event hosted around 500 young persons and families from different communities, including pupils from a school for disabled children in Mitrovica/Mitrovicë North. In addition, around 100 volunteers from the KAPS, KP, Fire fighters, KFOR, Carabinieri and the Mission, assisted the participants during their sports competitions. To further support the development of young athletes with disabilities, the Mission donated 15 wheelchairs for children and five wheelchairs for 4 Municipal Community Safety Councils are established in municipalities in order to institutionalize co-operation between municipal institutions, communities and the police. 5 Local Public Safety Committees (LPSC) exist in a number of smaller areas within municipalities, such as remote and multi-ethnic villages, where it is in the interest of effective policing and good relations with all communities that they exist. LPSCs are composed of local community representatives whose selection is in the hands of the local community. The KP consults these committees on safety and security matters in the areas they cover. 59