In February 2011, the Centre held a working-level meeting with several MIA representatives to discuss plans for 2011 which resulted in a number of project ideas that the MIA officially communicated to the Centre in April. The project ideas addressed the development of police evaluation criteria; the continuation of community policing activities; the organization of a regional conference on combating illegal migration and human trafficking by the MIA Academy based in Karaganda; and the development of the international accreditation process for the Training Centre on Illegal Migration and Human Trafficking at the MIA Academy in Karaganda. Police Reform The Centre launched a project to involve civil society in the development and review of the draft Law on Agencies of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The project aimed at creating a working group that would co-operate with the MIA, parliament and other stakeholders to provide input for the draft law. The project included two roundtables that involved broad stakeholder participation in discussing the provisions of the draft law. On 5-6 May, the Centre, in co-operation with the MIA and the local NGO Charter for Human Rights, conducted a roundtable in Almaty to discuss the draft law. The roundtable brought together law enforcement and civil society representatives to elaborate recommendations for police reform and specifically for the draft law. A similar roundtable was held on 9 June in Astana. On 22-23 September, the Centre facilitated the participation of two Kazakhstani government officials in the Annual Police Experts Meeting in Vienna (see also chapter 2). Police Training and Development On 20 April, the Centre conducted an assessment visit to an Astana-based police training school in a follow-up to the Centre’s 2010 project to develop a human rights curriculum for the police. The goal of the visit was to learn how the 16-hour “Human Rights Course” was being used and gauge its effectiveness. Centre staff was pleased to discover that the course was being used extensively at the school, and asked the Interior Ministry how the materials were being used at other police training institutes across the country. The “Human Rights Course” was delivered in the Russian and Kazakh languages. It was also introduced into police schools’ curricula nation-wide and taught to hundreds of cadets in 2011. On 9-10 June, the Centre facilitated the participation of two representatives from the Police Academies of the MIA in the workshop on “Contemporary Police Training: E-learning” in Ankara (see also chapter 2). Combating Organized Crime On 27 May, the Centre, together with the Mazhilis (the lower chamber of Parliament) held a roundtable in Astana to discuss the provisions of Kazakhstan’s draft Law on Organized Crime. The Centre facilitated the participation of an expert from the Republic of Georgia, who shared Georgia’s experience dealing with organized crime in both legislation and in practice. The event brought together representatives of the Mazhilis, the MIA, the National Security Committee, the Customs Committee, the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Supreme Court, and other national experts. Drug-Trafficking On 6-8 September, the Centre facilitated the participation of a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs' Committee for Combating the Drug Business and Illicit Drug Trafficking at 98