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. 11

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