system, present the system to relevant stakeholders and gather feedback on how to increase the usefulness and relevance of the system. In close co-operation with relevant internal and external stakeholders, the TNTD/CC provided substantial design and development support in the development of e-learning modules in the field of combating the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet. Furthermore, the TNTD/CC created and maintained an online forum on drafting a guidebook on police reform within the reform of the wider criminal justice system, aimed at facilitating discussions among Criminal Justice System experts from the OSCE participating States, OSCE executive structures and international and national organizations. ****** 2.2 TNTD/Strategic Police Matters Unit Background The primary role of the TNTD/SPMU is to provide police-related support to the OSCE Secretary General, the Chairmanship-in-Office, and upon their request, to the OSCE participating States. The TNTD/SPMU’s mission is to support policing in all OSCE participating States as part of the rule of law and fundamental democratic principles and, through assessment and expert advice, to contribute to the development of accountable police agencies that protect and serve the public. The TNTD/SPMU’s long-term goals aim to provide a democratic vision of policing for the entire OSCE region and put that vision to work by assisting OSCE participating States in police capacity and institution-building and improving police performance within the broader objective of strengthening national criminal justice systems. The vision guides capacity building aimed at creating competence to tackle transnational threats, including those emanating from organized crime and terrorism. The TNTD/SPMU explores every opportunity to also include participants from Partners for Co-operation, in particular from Afghanistan, in its capacity building events. Throughout the year, the Senior Police Adviser and his staff held high-level meetings with the Ministers of Interior and their Deputies, Directors of Departments; and the Heads/Directors of the Police and Police Academies of numerous participating States, in order to discuss OSCE’s assistance to police reform and development as well as the fight against organized transnational crime. Following up on the Athens Ministerial Council Decision 02/09 and the 2010 report by the OSCE Secretary General on the Implementation of MC.DEC/2/09 on Further OSCE Efforts to Address Transnational Threats and Challenges to Security and Stability; within the newly created structures of the Transnational Threats Department, which had been established in response to the Vilnius Ministerial Council Decision No. 9/11 on Strengthening Co-ordination and Coherence in the OSCE’s Efforts to Address Transnational Threats; and in line with the two PC Decisions of July 2012 on the OSCE Strategic Framework for Police-Related Activities, and the OSCE Concept for Combating the Threat of Illicit Drugs and the Diversion of Chemical Precursors, the TNTD/SPMU focused on ensuring maximum programmatic coordination of its activities among the OSCE executive structures and with international and regional organizations and NGOs in order to avoid duplications and to provide added value. 20

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