national representatives from neighbouring countries attended the seminar. International and national presenters portrayed various aspects of strategic planning. The TNTD/SPMU provided a methodological overview of strategic police reform. Presentations and discussions were followed by two workshops. Participants agreed on the need to strengthen strategic management capacities, acquire new knowledge and skills, and improve horizontal communication through: developing new managerial solutions and integrating existing management approaches; elaborating a consolidated system of support to the decision making process, which would enable a more effective utilization of public resources, as well as increased transparency and accountability of the work; and defining priorities in key areas, ensuring transparency in work and developing partnerships with a large number of actors. The TNTD/SPMU, as part of its strategic outreach in establishing partnerships with the police academies of participating States and with the international and regional organizations, prepared a co-operation protocol between the OSCE and the Association of European Police Colleges (AEPC), which was signed in the frame of the AEPC Governing Board Meeting of 14-15 February in Solna, Sweden. The protocol provides the OSCE with the opportunity to utilize the training expertise of the AEPC member colleges when providing assistance to the participating States. The AEPC was created in 1996. It is a network of police colleges from all over the European continent. In 2012, it had 50 member colleges (www.aepc.net). The AEPC supports the police training institutions by sharing collective knowledge on current police training matters. The association provides a choice of courses, conferences and various activities aimed at supporting and developing the police training institutions for senior police officers throughout the whole European continent. In February, following up on some initial talks with the Deputy Minister of Interior, the Director of the Police Academy and his senior staff on the reform of the Kyrgyz Police Academy in 2011, the TNTD/SPMU, in co-operation with the OSCE CiB facilitated the development of a co-operation agreement between the Turkish Police Academy and the Kyrgyz Police Academy about the Turkish Police Academy’s consultancy support to its Kyrgyz counterparts in developing a reform strategy and implementing activities highlighted in the Police Reform Project document developed by the OSCE CiB. On 11-12 April, the TNTD/SPMU participated in a national seminar on “Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalisation that Leads to Terrorism and the Use of Community Policing” in Becici, Montenegro. The seminar was co-sponsored by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro. Experts on terrorism, community policing, human rights and civil society presented information to members of the Montenegro criminal justice system and local community policing programmes. The meeting also served as an opportunity to collect information relevant for the development of a new upcoming guidebook on CP and VERLT undertaken in partnership with ODHIR and the TNTD/ATU (see above, and chapter 2.3 and 4.3) On 9 May, the TNTD/SPMU participated in an ODIHR consultation meeting on “Democratic Policing and Management of Assemblies” in Warsaw. The experts’ discussion focused on the status of current police training in the participating States and human rights concerns in terms of policing and management of assemblies. Lessons learned within the OSCE region were discussed as well as possible co-operation in a future project on the subject matter. On 23-24 May, the TNTD/SPMU participated in the third meeting of the “Global Counter Terrorism Forum (GCTF) Criminal Justice and Rule of Law Working Group” in The Hague. The meeting explored existing and potentially new counter-terrorism (CT) capacity building programmes to support the implementation of the GCTF Rabat Memorandum on Good Practices for Effective Counterterrorism Practice in the Criminal Justice Sector. The goal was to identify the potential future role and work plan for the Working Group for 2012-2013. The TNTD, jointly with ODIHR, submitted a written overview of pertinent OSCE activities as well as potential co-operation areas with the working group. In addition, the TNTD/SPMU delivered a presentation on the OSCE’s perspective on policing needs for addressing 24