Activities of the Transnational Threats Department recipients of such training, which aimed at highlighting the need to improve the public’s perception as well as the attitude and behaviour of criminal justice practitioners towards victims of gender-based violence to avoid secondary victimization. From 25 November to 10 December, in co-operation with police authorities in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania, TNTD/SPMU organized a regional awareness-raising campaign against gender-based violence in all three countries. The campaign targeted ‘first responder’ police officers and citizens, including potential victims and perpetrators. During the campaign, the target groups was equipped with written guides to assist them in better recognizing the causes, signs and effects of gender-based violence and, thus, adopt a sensitized approach when operating in such cases. A national public awareness campaign (including posters, TV and radio spots) further encouraged the reporting of cases, which in total, reached out to over 5.1 million citizens3. On 4 and 5 June, upon the invitation of the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the EU, TNTD/SPMU participated in a senior level conference in Bucharest “Towards a Europe free from violence against women and girls - The Istanbul Convention4 creating a new horizon and a paradigm change for all stakeholders”. During the event, TNTD/SPMU presented the OSCE’s work in terms of addressing gender-based violence, highlighting the need for stronger partnerships between actors involved in the prevention, protection, prosecution and integrated policies in relation to gender-based violence - the so-called ‘4 Ps’ of the Istanbul Convention. Public Order and Crisis Management On 14 November, in co-operation with experts from the Swedish and Ukrainian Police, TNTD/SPMU organized an introductory session on “dialogue policing” during a roundtable discussion in Yerevan on “Knowledge-based Public Order Policing” for 11 senior-level Armenian police officers and two Armenian parliamentarians from the Defence and Security Standing Committee. During the session, TNTD/SPMU introduced a concept on public order management as well as the first steps required during any reform of public order management in Armenia. The 3 The campaign reached out to 2,403,663 people in Bulgaria, 1,395,219 in Romania, and 1,300,342 in Hungary. 4 The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention) ratified by Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and signed by Armenia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Republic of Moldova, Slovak Republic, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and EU (status as of 30/03/2020). Nu fi indiferent, atitudinea ta poate SALVA VIEŢI! SPUNE NU VIOLENŢEI DOMESTICE! SUNĂ LA 112 PENTRU A RAPORTA UN CAZ SAU LA 0800-500-333 PENTRU A PRIMI CONSILIERE! ACEASTĂ CAMPANIE ESTE SUSȚINUTĂ DE: POLIŢIA ROMÂNĂ Poster disseminated in Romania with the aim to raise the public awareness of gender-based violence and encourage the reporting of cases. (OSCE) participants expressed interest in a ‘follow-up’ to this event in terms of discussing the dialogue policing concept. Other, including co-ordination and co-operation On 4 February, TNTD/SPMU met with representatives of the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Centre (UNICRI) and its Centre for AI and Robotics in The Hague. During the meeting, TNTD/SPMU received briefings on the Centre’s activities, in crime prevention, criminal justice, law enforcement and security. On 2 April, TNTD/SPMU delivered a presentation at the UNICRI-INTERPOL roundtable in New York on “Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: Reshaping the Future of Crime, Terrorism and Security”. During the event, 120 participants discussed the application of AI, highlighting that international discussion was required on the risks and benefits from a law enforcement and national security perspective. 19