the Ministry’s Communication Strategy, National Strategy for the Fight against Organized Crime and the National Strategy for the Fight against Drugs. In 2012, the LED was comprised of 15 international and 22 national staff. The Mission negotiated the process of handing over full control of the OSCE Advanced Police Training Centre in Zemun to the MoI. At the end of 2011, the Mission had also withdrawn all of its staff from the Basic Police Training Centre in Sremska Kamenica. In 2012, a total of 550 police officers and 50 judiciary representatives were trained, while the results of the Mission’s police-related activities directly reached 20,000 citizens in Serbia. Finally, the Mission went through self-evaluation and decisions were made to close the Mission’s Strategic Planning Unit as well as to mainstream the main components of the Police Accountability Programme to other LED programmes at the end of 2012. According to the evaluation, the Mission’s efforts in developing the Ministry’s capacities for strategic planning during the last eight years allowed the MoI to move forward on its own, within the overall framework of public administration reform in Serbia. Strategic Planning and Development During 2012, the MoI started implementing its Development Strategy 2011-2016 Action Plan, using the skills and approaches derived from the Mission’s earlier efforts. The Ministry’s Bureau for Strategic Planning (BSP) further built up its central role of co-ordinating and overseeing strategic planning and reform processes. Notably, the Bureau applied newly acquired capacities in policy and strategy development, as demonstrated by the development of the Community Policing Strategy, a milestone in Serbia’s police reform process. As part of its overall support to the BSP in building capacity to successfully and more efficiently implement its roles within the MoI, the Mission enhanced communication, presentation and facilitation skills of 16 BSP employees. In October and November 2012, the Mission assisted the BSP to engage at the district police level in the implementation of the Ministry’s Development Strategy and to embed the Strategy’s goals in their work through a series of four workshops across Serbia, which were attended by more than 60 mid-level managers from the MoI. The BSP also worked on enhancing the network between national level strategic planners and their local counterparts in all 27 police districts in Serbia. This resulted in the transfer of know-how on the strategic planning process, basic procedures, techniques and tools, as well as in a high level of local ownership throughout the process. These workshops were thematically divided into two parts – theoretical and practical. The theoretical part familiarized the participants with the phases of the strategic planning process, the importance of strategic planning for the policy and decision making process and the significance of internal communication in a team. The practical part involved aspects of the above mentioned theoretical background, which were tailor-made for the district police level. Mutual efforts of the Mission and the MoI to develop strategic planning and strategic management capacities resulted in the sustainability of the role and work of the BSP, as demonstrated at the joint high-level international conference “Effective Strategy in Policing”, held on 28-29 November in Belgrade. The conference was a milestone event, where strategic planning professionals from a number of European police services (e.g. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, France, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden, and the UK) gathered to share experiences and exchange information related to the improvement of strategic planning and management. The event also gathered representatives from the international organizations dealing with strategizing in policing, namely EUROPOL, INTERPOL and the OSCE. More than 50 MoI personnel, including representatives of the EU 73