Police Reform During the reporting period, the Mission continued to take part in consultations amongst the international representatives in Chisinau on matters related to police reform in Moldova. On 17-18 February, the Senior Police Adviser to the Secretary General and SPMU’s Police Adviser on Anti-Trafficking visited Moldova. Meetings were held with the Minster of Internal Affairs, the Deputy Ministers responsible for policing and the Carabinieri, the EU High Level Policy Adviser to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, senior officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, representatives of the EU Delegation to Moldova and local NGOs. Discussions focused on the on-going reform process within the Ministry of Internal Affairs and on anti-trafficking issues. On 16 June, the Moldovan Government approved an Action Plan on Reforming the Ministry of Internal Affairs to ensure the improvement of the institutional, organizational and functional framework of the Ministry. The plan is aimed at fulfilling the commitments assumed as part of the national programme for implementing the Moldova-EU Visa Liberalization Action Plan. The Mission also supported the attendance of Moldovan police officers and officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs at capacity-building events in and outside Moldova. Representatives from the Ministry of Internal Affairs attended roundtables, organized by the Mission in co-operation with the Prosecutor General’s Office within the framework of the Mission’s ExB project on Support for the Prosecution Service Reform and Capacity Building. Roundtables were held on 19 April to discuss the division of competencies and responsibility between prosecutors and police officers in carrying out operative investigative measures, and on 12 October to discuss optimization of the criminal procedure. Anti Trafficking and Gender The Mission’s Anti Trafficking and Gender Officer held monthly technical co-ordination meetings for international and local officials and NGOs involved in the wider effort to combat THB and domestic violence in Moldova. The meetings were held in Chisinau and other locations, including Transdniestria. Local and District level police officials took part in these meetings. On 29 June, the Mission moderated a session on “Child Victims of Trafficking and Exploitation” as part of a workshop on “Crimes against Children, Juvenile Crimes and Delinquency”. The workshop was part of the Mission’s Confidence and Security Building Measures and was conducted by the Conflict Prevention and Resolution Programme in cooperation with the Anti-Trafficking and Gender Programme and the SPMU. The session highlighted children’s rights during police investigations of trafficking, sexual exploitation and cybercrime. Law enforcement agencies, the Ministries of Justice, Education and Labour, Social Protection and the Family, EUBAM and NGOs participated in the workshop. From 31 October to 2 November, the Mission facilitated a visit to Moldova of the OSCE SR/CTHB, who met with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, the Ministry of Labour, Social Protection and Family, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and its Centre for Combating Trafficking in Persons, the Office of the Prosecutor General, UN agencies and NGOs from both sides of the Nistru/Dniestr river. On 14-18 November, the Mission supported the participation of the director and two other police investigators of the Centre for Combating Trafficking in Persons in a study visit to the UK on combating the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet. The visit was organized in co-operation with the SPMU and the office of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine. 79