Strategic Planning and Development Upon request from the MIA, the OiT invited two highly experienced police reform experts to conduct a five-day “Strategic Planning Workshop” for Regional Commanders to increase the ability of police managers to respond to the envisaged change management. From 28 February to 4 March, the OiT organized a “Strategic Planning Workshop” for 17 Senior and Mid-level Managers, and Regional Commanders of the MIA in Dushanbe aimed at increasing the ability of police managers to apply the theory of strategic planning in practice. The workshop provided detailed introduction into strategic and alternative thinking to widen the thinking ability of the participants. Learning different ways of thinking, such as analytical, conceptual, creative, critical and intuitive thinking was followed by exercises. Experts from the U.S. Embassy facilitated a day on integrating community policing into strategic planning. Workshop participants emphasized the importance of police-public partnerships and collaborative problem-solving to create safer communities. All participants identified plans to transform the theory learned in the workshops into practice engaging in activities to support the police reform changes. Upon request from the Government, the Office drafted a MoU for the envisaged police reform in order to ensure a successful commencement of the police reform and implementation of the identified road map. On 8 April, the MoU was signed by the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan and by the Head of the OSCE Office in Tajikistan. The ceremony was also attended by several Ministers and heads of agencies of the Republic of Tajikistan, and by the heads of diplomatic missions and embassies accredited to Tajikistan. According to the MoU, a Police Reform Steering Group on Police Reform was to be established, tasked with developing the Programme on Police Development and Reform. In addition to the government agencies as members of the steering group, representatives of donor countries, international organizations and NGOs were also foreseen to be involved in the Programme’s development. The MoU provided the policy framework of Tajikistan’s police reform change management by defining the government’s strategic vision, objectives and priorities for the coming years. The main purpose of the MoU, and the activities within it, was to serve as a platform for the establishment of the institutional structures and systems needed to develop an efficient, effective, accountable and professional police service that is responsive to the needs of local communities, and works in partnership with other parts of the justice system within a sector-wide approach to security, safety and justice. From 13-22 May, the OiT, in co-operation with the MIA of Tajikistan, the MIA of Croatia, the U.S. Embassies in Tajikistan and Croatia and the OSCE Office in Zagreb, brought ten senior Tajik law enforcement officials together with their counterparts in Croatia to examine the regulatory structure and on-site implementation of Croatia’s police reform. The Tajik delegation headed by the Deputy Minister met with the State Secretary of the Croatian MIA and discussed similar challenges facing law enforcement officials in both countries. Tajikistan's senior police representatives also met with counterparts in operational areas of the Croatian General Police Directorate, including Internal Control, the Criminal Police, including the Special Unit for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime, the Forensic Laboratory, the Police Academy, the K-9 Centre, the Directorate of Legal Affairs and Human Resources and the Special Police. A special focus of the visit was community policing, including relations with media and the public. The Tajik delegation made field visits to Zagreb's central dispatcher centre, to community-level police stations in Zagreb, Samobor, Ivanec and Varazdin, as well as to two border crossing points at very different areas of the Croatian-Slovenian border. As in Tajikistan, the police reform process in Croatia has developed parallel to ongoing legal and judicial reform processes. So as to ensure a crossdimensional approach that can help integrate human rights and gender, and as part of the Office's cross-dimensional approach to police reform, the Head of the Office's Human Dimension Department participated in the study tour. Her particular focus in the study was on how co-ordination was designed and implemented within the overall process of criminal justice reform. As a follow-up a meeting with all participants of the study tour was organized 113