guidance procedures manual for participants to act as an “aide memoir” for their activities when dealing with children on the street. The PDD also continued its activities of the previous year aimed at encouraging accountable and transparent internal oversight mechanisms of the police, as reducing the level of corruption within the police will contribute to improving citizens’ trust in the police, and sustaining professional behaviour and standards within the Ministry. In co-operation with the MoIA and ICITAP, a regional conference on “Improving Best Practices and Regional Cooperation in the Field of Internal Control” was organized. Some 50 experts from nine countries in the region shared best practices and discussed ways to strengthen cross-border co-operation of the internal control services. Following the death of a student, apparently at the hands of a special unit police officer during election celebrations, the MoIA received a great deal of criticism about the way in which it handled the subsequent media coverage of the event. With the assistance of the PDD, a three-day workshop on “Police-Media Relations” was held in order to assist the MoIA in advancing its performance capacities in this field and improve relations with the media. Activities in this sphere were planned to continue in 2012. Other activities of the Community Policing Assistance Programme addressed issues, such as: promoting diversity awareness among police members; strengthening police managerial capacities; crime analysis; and police-gender balance. Combating Organized Crime This programme centred on supporting the MoIA’s Centre for Suppression of Organized and Serious Crime (CSOSC) in strengthening its capacities for prevention and detection of organized crime activities. Logistical and technical support was regularly provided for organizing and delivering specialized and advanced in-service training courses in the field of organized crime. The PDD supported the MoIA’s CSOSC, the Bureau for Security and Counterintelligence and the Bureau for Public Security by providing expert assistance in developing SOPs for organized crime; delivering training on cybercrime as well as organizing study trips in the area of surveillance. Support was also provided in the area of crime intelligence and the effective fight against terrorism. The PDD supported a two-week training course in Turkey for 12 law enforcement officers. The aim was to develop skills in crime intelligence and update knowledge on financing of organized crime groups. As a follow-up, the PDD supported the visit of a Turkish expert to Skopje to train eight members of the MoIA’s Crime Intelligence Unit on crime intelligence analysis. The trainings provided the MoIA with the capacity to create a National Crime Intelligence Database. This project was planned to continue in 2012. Under the programme, the PDD also supported the MoIA’s Special Units Department and the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (ASC) by providing targeted and highly specialized training courses in the areas of preventive measures and special investigative techniques for the effective fight against terrorism. The PDD organized a cybercrime training on “Evidence Recovery from Live Computer” in Skopje for 14 participants from the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence and the MoIA. 19 ASC is a division of the "Bureau for Security and Counterintelligence" which is the main body in the Ministry of Interior to deal with terrorism threats. 75