participants stressed the importance of co-operation between all stakeholders – the police, schools, social institutions – in fighting domestic violence and fostering traditional family values. On 14-18 November, the Office, jointly with the U.S. Embassy, organized training courses for police officers dealing with domestic violence issues. Police-Media Relations The Office’s efforts to enhance relations between the police and the media and hence with the public, resulted in 2011 in the development of a Guidebook for Police Officers Cooperating with Mass Media. The Guidebook is to serve as a hands-on tool for police and journalists. Previous roundtables and training events on police-media relations organized by the Office in the Armenian provinces had raised the necessity to give more responsibilities to the Armenian Police Departments in the provinces in the field of police-media relations. Based on the recommendations made by the Office, the Head of Police signed the Order on the appointment of the Deputy Heads of Provincial Police Departments as focal points for policemedia relations. The new approach allows mass media representatives to receive timely information directly from the police departments in the provinces without approaching the Press and Public Relations Department located in the Capital. Over the year, the Office had several meetings with the Head of the Press and Public Department of the police to discuss the issues related to the improvement of police-media relations. A joint activity plan for 2012 was agreed, focusing on the organization of the meetings with mass media representatives, the improvement of the police web page, as well as an evaluation of the activities of focal points in charge of relations with the media. Cyber Security/Cybercrime From 22-26 August, the Office sponsored a study visit for two specialists of the RA Police Division for Combating High Tech Crimes to the Russian Federation to get acquainted with the activities of the Cybercrime Department of the Ministry of Interior of the Russian Federation as well as to discuss the issue of further co-operation in the field of cybercrime. The Office also sponsored the participation of two specialists from the RA Police Division for Combating High Tech Crimes at the “Octopus Conference” organized by the Council of Europe in Strasbourg from 21-23 November. From 21-24 November, the Office sponsored the visit of two representatives of the Centre for Information Forensics and Assurance Associate School of Business University at Albany/State University of New York to Yerevan. The representatives of the University visited Armenia to sign a MoU with the European Academy of Armenia and to meet with key stakeholders and policy makers in the field of Cyber Security. An agreement was reached on the development of a special curriculum for the IT faculty of the Academy and on the delivery of a special course by the international counterparts. On 8 December, the Office, jointly with the RA Police, organized a conference on “Review of the Current Situation on Cyber Security and Cybercrime Issues in Armenia”. Some 40 representatives from the National Security Council, the National Security Service, the State Commission on Cyber Security under the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Trade and Economy, the Ministry of Transport and Communication as well as the police participated in the event. The following topics were discussed during the event: legislative frameworks regulating the fight against cybercrime; the fight against child abuse on the Internet; the 94