- The third session on the “Role of the Agency for the Fight against Corruption in Suppressing Corruption” included presentations given by the Anti-Corruption Agency; The fourth session on the “Prevention of Corruption” was dedicated to international organizations and NGO’s. Among others, the Mission’s representative presented the role of the OSCE in designing and implementing anti-corruption policies. Discussions during the fourth session also covered issues such as the link between organized crime and corruption in the OSCE countries and how to deal with it; the role of horizontal coordination between the police, prosecutors and judges; as well as the importance of internal control in fighting corruption. On 7 December, the Mission organized a round table on “Discovering Criminal Offences in Public Procurement” in Belgrade. One official from the MoI (Criminal Police Directorate Service for Combating Organized Crime); Organized Crime Prosecutors, Public Prosecutors, State Audit Institution officials and Public Procurement officials were briefed on anticorruption elements of the new Law on Public Procurement as well as on the newly adopted article on Criminal Offenses in Malfeasance in Public Procurement in the amendments to the Criminal Code. The aim of the event was to encourage law enforcement, prosecutors and auditors to better understand criminal offences of corruption in public procurement and how to charge future offenders. Criminal Investigations From 4-15 June, the Mission organized a ten-day pilot ToT on the “PEACE Model of Investigative Interviewing” for ten selected investigators from the MoI. The training emanated from a needs assessment carried out by the Mission in late 2011 for identifying the situation in the area of investigative interviewing in Serbia. Developed by the British police service and widely used by many European police services as a set of structured guidelines for interviewing witnesses and victims, the PEACE model was selected as it also represents a non-accusatory interview model designed to develop sufficient investigative information to determine the suspect’s possible involvement in the criminal behaviour under investigation. The goal of this pilot training was to train a core group of trainers who would develop necessary skills to further train their fellow colleagues in the use of this model. The first part of the training, delivered by two British experts, entailed five days of training in the use of the “PEACE” model when preparing and conducting interviews. The second part entailed a fiveday refresher course in general training methods, adult learning principles and lesson preparation and delivery, delivered by the Mission staff certified as trainers. As a follow-up to the ToT course on the PEACE Model of Investigative Interviewing, the Mission organized two pilot courses on the use of the PEACE model. The objective of these pilot courses was to introduce the PEACE Model into the specialized training system of the MoI. Both pilot courses were delivered by the MoI’s trained trainers to a total of 32 investigators from diverse organizational units within the Criminal Investigations Directorate, 16 per course. Upon completion, both pilot courses were evaluated by the participants, trainers and the Mission. Based on the evaluation results, the training curriculum was envisaged to be amended to best meet the needs of the MoI training courses from 2013 onwards. The first pilot course took place in Belgrade from 5-9 November, while the second one was held from 17-21 December. Cybercrime In its continuous support to the MoI to achieve the goals set forth by the National Action Plan for the implementation of the National Strategy for the Fight against Organized Crime, which also addresses the fight against cybercrime, the Mission facilitated the participation of one expert from the Ministry’s Cybercrime Department in the OSCE Annual Police Experts Meeting on “Fighting the Threat of Cybercrime”, organized by the TNTD/SPMU on 20-21 90