women and 20 men) from the National Organized Crime Agency, Bureau of Criminal Police and Investigations, Police Education and Training Unit, police schools, regional departments of combating common crimes, and public order departments. In particular, a demonstrationtraining on hate crimes was organized, including some of the key modules from the TAHCLE curriculum. A discussion focused on issues such as the role of police as ‘first respondents’ to hate crimes, ensuring response to manifestations of intolerance and the lack of trust in police by marginalized communities leading to the underreporting of hate crimes. From 11 to 13 June, ODIHR conducted a needs assessment visit to Prague and Brno on collecting the necessary information prior to the implementation of joint TAHCLE and Prosecutors and Hate Crimes Training (PAHCT) programmes in the Czech Republic. ODIHR met with 28 interlocutors (12 women and 16 men) from the MoI, MoJ, GPO, Police Presidium, and civil society. The visit confirmed the need to implement both programmes and that training was required for police and prosecutors in recognizing, recording, investigating, and prosecuting hate crimes. A meeting with police senior management confirmed the strong interest by the government to implement both programmes in parallel. • From 3 to 5 July, ODIHR delivered an international TAHCLE ToT session in Warsaw. The event gathered experts and future TAHCLE trainers (nine women and seven men) from 12 participating States, aimed at developing the skills of the selected future trainers in effectively addressing hate crimes in line with the TAHCLE methodology. In 2019, ODIHR supported Ukrainian police in improving the methodology for responding to hate crimes. On 28 May, ODIHR launched two new publications for police and prosecutors on recording and investigating hate crimes entitled Categorizing and Investigating Hate Crimes in Ukraine: A Practical Guide, and its Annex Bias Indicators: A Practical Tool for Police. The launch event in Kyiv brought together 21 participants (eight women and 13 men), representing various police departments, Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO), MoIA, European Union Advisory Mission Ukraine (EUAM), OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine and a number of CSOs. Participants discussed the dissemination and implementation of both guides, with the police, MoIA and PGO agreeing to disseminate the publications to the broadest possible range of end-users. The National Police Human Rights Department in the MoI and PGO committed to specific follow-up initiatives to improve the recording and investigation of hate crimes. Furthermore, 138 the police and the PGO expressed an interest in ODIHR’s trainings on hate crimes. In addition, ODIHR involved law enforcement in the framework of its capacity-building efforts to improve the skills of prosecutors in improving their response to hate crimes. • On 17 December, ODIHR co-organized a Hate Crime Awareness-Raising Workshop with the Academy of Justice of Armenia. The workshop focused on introducing the PAHCT programme and raising awareness about hate crime and ODIHR’s programmes and tools to address this multi-dimensional phenomenon. The event gathered representatives of the GPO, police, Special Investigation Service, judiciary, Office of the Human Rights Defender, Academy and civil society, including women’s and LGBTI CSOs (14 women and 17 men). ODIHR also met with police senior management who expressed an interest in implementing the TAHCLE and PAHCT programmes in parallel with each other. In 2019, ODIHR continued its co-operation with participating States on improving their hate crime data collection systems. ODIHR organized workshops in Bulgaria and Spain with the aim of understanding and improving hate crime recording and data collection. The workshops were based on the principles outlined in ODIHR’s Hate Crime Data Collection and Monitoring Mechanisms: A Practical Guide46 as translated into its capacity-building programme “Improving Hate Crimes Recording and Data Collection (INFAHCT)”47. • From 19 to 21 June, co-hosted with the FRA and Bulgarian MFA, ODIHR organized an INFAHCT workshop in Sofia to introduce a system for recording hate crimes in the Bulgarian police. The event included a high-level awarenessraising event addressing hate crimes in Bulgaria, attended by 30 participants (11 women and 19 men), including the Minister of Interior and Deputy Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Justice, Chief Police Commissioner and Chair of the Commission for Protection against Discrimination. A working level workshop followed, which resulted in a series of recommendations, summarized by ODIHR and EU FRA in a report subsequently delivered to the Bulgarian authorities. • From 7 to 8 May, ODIHR facilitated a day-and-a-half INFAHCT workshop in Madrid. The workshop was coorganized by ODIHR, FRA and the Hate Crime Unit of 46 www.osce.org/odihr/datacollectionguide. 47 www.osce.org/odihr/infahct.