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Enhancing strategic planning and development, which shall include: providing
assistance in enhancing the strategic planning and management capacities within
the Ministry and the Police Directorate; advisory support on the structural
reorganization of the Ministry and Police Directorate; as well as support in
developing a working methodology which leads to the implementation of EU
standards and best practices.
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Enhancing police education and development, which shall include: providing
assistance, consultancy and support to the police reform process through general
education and training; trainer development programmes; curriculum development
assistance; and improving the police capacities for a substantive delivery of
training programmes.
Strategic Planning and Development
In May, the Mission facilitated the release of a public perception survey conducted by the
independent sociological agency CEDEM. CEDEM provided relevant statistics and
information about the perception of the citizens and the society with regard to the police’s
performance of their duties; internal and external factors influencing it and the role of the
society in improving co-operation with the police and the security in the country. The results
of the survey provided background facts for the preparation of the PD strategy 2011-2013
and the OSCE Police Reform Report 2005-2011.
Co-ordination of Police-related Activities amongst International Organizations
On 19 December, the Mission facilitated the Police Directorate’s “Annual Co-ordination
Meeting” on policing issues that focused on the ongoing process of police reform in
Montenegro. More than 30 representatives from the Police Directorate, the Police Academy,
the OSCE, International Organizations, and Embassies participated at the meeting.
The meeting allowed participants to exchange information about the projects completed in
2011 and their plans for 2012. In the future the Police Directorate was going to be entirely in
charge of organizing the “Annual Co-ordination Meeting” and was going to have a leading
role in the co-ordination process. The OSCE Mission supported the establishment of a data
base, which allows the Police Directorate to co-ordinate international assistance and to
transfer the assistance to the local authorities.
Police Education and Development
On 16-18 March, the Mission organized a two-day regional conference of ministers of justice
and ministers of internal affairs from twelve member states of the South East European Cooperation Process (SEECP), chaired by Montenegro in 2011, in the Montenegrin town of
Becici. The goal of the event, organized in co-operation with Montenegro’s Justice and
Interior Ministries, was to strengthen regional co-operation and co-ordination in the area of
justice and police. In addition to the justice and interior ministers, representatives of
international organizations and institutions dealing with judicial co-operation and organized
crime matters, such as the EU, Eurojust, Europol, INTERPOL, MARRI, SECI and UNODC
attended the conference.
The main outcomes of the conference were common declarations of SEECP Ministers of
Justice and Home Affairs regarding the endorsement of the Regional Strategic Document
2011-2013 and the Action Plan for its implementation, and the Budva Declaration on
Strengthening Regional Co-operation and Co-ordination in the Fight against Organized
Crime in the Countries of South-East Europe.
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