EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Annual Report of the Secretary General on Police-Related Activities in 2011, submitted in accordance with Decision 9, paragraph 6, of the 2001 Bucharest Ministerial Council Meeting, provides an overview of the police-related programmes and projects, implemented by the thematic units in the Secretariat, the field operations and ODIHR during 2011. The topics that continued to dominate OSCE’s policing agenda were the fight against transnational threats, including those, emanating from organized crime and terrorism, and the promotion of the principles of democratic policing. 2011 witnessed a notable increase in general police development and reform activities and a slight increase in anti-organized crime activities of the OSCE, with approximately two thirds of the activities focussing on general police development and one third of activities being devoted to addressing organized crime. In the field of general police development and reform, most of the activities were devoted to enhancing and consolidating community policing/police-public partnership projects, with a substantial increase of such activities taking place in Kyrgyzstan in the context of the Community Security Initiative (CSI). Support in strategic planning of police reform, the development of national police training capacity, and the mainstreaming of gender issues in policing were the other three areas where most efforts were directed.1 In the field of activities against organized crime most attention was devoted to the fight against Trafficking in Human Beings (THB) with more than a third of all activities addressing THB projects. The fight against terrorism received the second greatest attention, followed by activities that addressed anti-corruption, cyber security/cybercrime, criminal investigations, and the fight against illicit drugs and precursors.2 The vast majority of projects in the areas of police development/reform and the fight against organized crime (almost two thirds), were related to training and capacity-building, with notably fewer projects taking place in the area of legislative and strategic support. The facilitation of study tours and conference participation of national stakeholders abroad played a rather minor role in the activities. In all of the police-related activities, the promotion of human rights and gender mainstreaming remained an integral element. Activities of the SPMU In 2011, the SPMU continued providing police-related support to the OSCE Secretary General and the OSCE Chairmanship-in-Office. The Unit also responded to participating States’ requests for assistance in police reform and supported the OSCE field operations in the implementation of their mandates. Particular efforts were devoted in this regard to the assessment of the OSCE Community Policing Project in Azerbaijan and the OSCE Community Security Initiative in Kyrgyzstan; the latter also in close co-operation with the Conflict Prevention Centre. 1 2 10 A graphic overview of the types of assistance provided by the various executive structures in the different fields of police development and reform is given in Appendix 3 to this report. A graphic overview of the types of assistance provided by the various executive structures in the different fields of combating organized crime is given in Appendix 4 to this report.