Executive Summary
Activities of field
operations
Activities of OSCE
Institutions
The six FOs in SEE dedicated 71 per cent of their policerelated activities to general police development and reform,
focusing mainly on community policing, police-public
relations and crime prevention, gender-based violence and
police development and reform. In the area of threats posed
by criminal activity, 30 per cent of activities organized were
focused on counter-terrorism and P/C VERLT while THB and
cyber-related activities were also covered to a large extent. The
Missions in Kosovo, to Serbia and to Skopje devoted around
three quarters of their police-related activities to police
development and reform while the Presence in Albania, and
Missions to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and Montenegro
addressed mainly threats posed by criminal activity.
In co-operation with other OSCE executive structures,
the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
(ODIHR), as the only OSCE institution involved in such
activities, continued to provide police-related activities to
participating States. Throughout 2019, ODIHR supported
participating States addressing the issue of hate crimes
through the implementation of its “Training against Hate
Crimes for Law Enforcement” (TAHCLE) programme. In
addition, the ODIHR Human Rights Handbook on Policing
Assemblies was expanded and is now translated into the
Georgian, Armenian, and Romanian languages.
In Eastern Europe, in contrast to 2018, the Mission to
Moldova dedicated 78 per cent of its police-related activities
to addressing threats posed by criminal activity, with a
particular emphasis placed on activities aimed at combating
THB and migration-related crime. In the sphere of general
police development and reform, its activities focused on
human rights, police accountability and hate crime. Police
development and reform remained the main area where
the Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine delivered its police
assistance, covering over 68 per cent of its total policerelated activities with the key activities being combating and
preventing gender-based violence.
In Central Asia, 53 per cent of police-related activities
organised by FOs were related to general police development
and reform while 47 per cent related to threats posed
by criminal activity. This ‘big picture’ reflects a similar
distribution of activities between both categories, yet
the allocation in each FO varied. Compared to 2018, the
Programme Offices in Dushanbe and Bishkek devoted most
of their activities to general police development and reform
(over 70 per cent), the Centre in Ashgabat and Programme
Office in Nur-Sultan dedicated slightly more than half of
their police-related activities to initiatives addressing threats
posed by criminal activity, with the Project Co-ordinator in
Uzbekistan dedicating 94 per cent of their activities to this
category.
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