local police with the support of the local self-government and the local educational institutions. This final event included a football tournament as well as the presentation of project results by the project co-ordinator and participants and prominent sportsmen from Ub whose names and faces were used in the promotion of the project. It was estimated that the Valjevo district police reached out to over 2,000 schoolchildren. On 25 October, the Mission supported a lecture organized by the Novi Sad district police in the frame of their project "Only Fair Play Supporter is our 12th Player" that focused on preventing sports hooliganism and violence in sports events. The lecture was held by a prominent university professor of Sociology from Novi Sad who spoke about the need for prevention of sports violence and the best prevention methods. This lecture was an integral part of the above project that also included lectures by police officers in a number of secondary schools in Novi Sad to young people who could potentially be recruited to hooligan groups. On 9 November, the Mission supported the convening of an interactive workshop for elementary schoolchildren in Prokuplje, conducted by the Prokuplje district police as part of their project “Safe Child – Safe School”. The workshop gathered schoolchildren aged 11 to 14 who discussed the problem of peer violence with representatives of the police, the Centre for Social Welfare and the local Youth Office. This activity was part of the crime prevention action plan that aimed to raise the awareness of elementary school students, their parents and members of the general public about the issue of peer violence, violence among children of that age or close to that age, as well as how to prevent and reduce violence among children. Additionally, the event served as an opportunity to enhance knowledge and understanding among participants of the definition of criminal offences of vandalism, and the intentional and malicious destruction or damage to the property of another, when committed against school property. On 17 November, within the project “Alcohol is not cool” by the Prijepolje district police, the Mission supported the organization of a football tournament for secondary schoolchildren. The tournament gathered final year schoolchildren with the aim of promoting sports activities as a good means to fight alcohol abuse. The general aim was to raise the awareness of secondary school students, their parents and members of the public, especially café bar and shop owners, about the detrimental effects of alcohol abuse. The project aimed to contribute to the creation of a more secure and safer living environment through the education of young people and by directing the whole community towards responding proactively to delinquent behaviours caused by alcohol abuse. Some 200 people were in the audience at the event, while more than 700 students from 7 secondary schools from Prijepolje, Priboj and Nova Varoš participated in educational workshops throughout this crime prevention activity. Also, around 50 café bar and shop owners situated around these schools took part in public debates organized by the Prijepolje district police. On 10 October, the Novi Pazar district police organized a street event involving the distribution of information material to the citizens of Novi Pazar. This activity was conducted jointly with all project partners (local self-government, Centre for Social Welfare, local NGOs) in the frame of the project “Stop Domestic Violence”. On 9 November, the Novi Pazar police organized a school public debate involving the distribution of information material to all the secondary schoolchildren in Novi Pazar. This activity was also conducted jointly with all project partners (local self-government, Centre for Social Welfare, local NGOs). The objective of the action plan was to raise awareness among the citizens of Novi Pazar of the issue of domestic violence (within the family and gender-based violence); of the fact that violence is unacceptable and punishable; of the measures to protect the victims (victimization), and of measures against offenders with the goal of reducing the number of crimes containing the elements of domestic violence and gender-based violence. 84