4.14 The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan Background Since 2007, the PCUz has been providing assistance to the Police Academy under the Ministry of Interior (MoI). The assistance focuses on co-operation in improving training and exchanging experience. Special attention is paid to retraining and the professional development of specialists in enhancing public security, crime prevention, and major issues such as terrorism, extremism, drug trafficking, and human trafficking. Since 2010, the PCUz has co-operated with the Chair on Human Rights Theory and Practice under the Police Academy, and the Human Rights Protection and Legal Provision Department of the Ministry of Interior and its subdivisions in the regions, on capacity building and training on human rights. Police Development On 25-27 July, the PCUz organized a three-day training seminar on information analysis in police activities. The training, delivered by experts from Austria, brought together 25 academic staff of the National Police Academy. Participants shared their experience of gathering and analyzing information, as well as that of other OSCE participating States regarding the system of information analysis. The training was organized as part of a larger co-operation project between the PCUz and the National Police Academy. Between July 2012 and December 2012, the PCUz organized four training courses on the “Theory and International Standards of Human Rights” for 150 police officers, representing the Human Rights Protection and Legal Provision Department of the MoI and its subdivisions in the regions of the country, as well as other Departments dealing with human rights issues. An international expert from the Polish Helsinki Federation for Human Rights facilitated discussions on basic principles of human rights and the international system of human rights protection, as well as case studies on the role of law enforcement agencies in ensuring rights, including the right to peaceful assembly, freedom of expression and privacy. The training courses were financed through an extra-budgetary contribution of the Government of Germany. The Project Co-ordinator continued to support the activity of the Human Rights Resource Centre established previously at the Ministry, by providing access for police officers to Internet resources and donations of literature on various human rights and rule of law issues. From 20-22 June, the PCUz organized a study tour to the Slovak Republic for representatives of the National Human Rights Centre, the Human Rights Protection and Legal Provision Department of the MoI and the Law Training Centre under the Ministry of Justice. The main aim of the visit was to learn about state policies on human rights and to familiarize participants with the activities of national human rights institutions in Slovakia. Advanced practices on the protection of human rights and freedoms during criminal investigations, court hearings and execution of punishments were studied. From 23-28 September, the PCUz supported the participation of a representative of the Department for Entry, Exit and Citizenship of the Ministry of Interior at the “2012 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting” in Warsaw. 142