Appendix 1 From 16 to 17 August, ODIHR organized a standard training course for 16 police officers in Kyiv to further strengthen their understanding of effective policing practices and the need to respect and protect the rights of all persons, particularly those excluded or discriminated against, such as Roma. From 16 to 19 December, ODIHR organized a ToT course for 16 participants from the Romanian police, in Bucharest. As a result of the training, participants increased their knowledge and understanding on the importance of overcoming existing stereotypes against Roma and of the benefits of complying with human rights standards in policing activities. Hate Crime Throughout 2019, ODIHR continued to support participating States in addressing hate crimes through implementation of its “Training against Hate Crimes for Law Enforcement (TAHCLE) programme”45. The participating States showed continuous interest in the TAHCLE programme. A number of MoUs on implementing the programme were signed with two participating States in 2019 and two further participating States expressed preliminary interest in implementing it in the future. • On 19 February, ODIHR signed an MoU to implement TAHCLE with the Georgian MoIA. The signing ceremony held in Tbilisi gathered 24 participants from various MoIA departments and police. ODIHR also discussed with the representatives of the Human Rights Protection and Monitoring Department the next steps of the programme’s implementation. The curriculum was adjusted to the national context, translated into the local language, reviewed by the National Implementation WG, and duly finalized. From 16 to 18 April, ODIHR conducted a ToT session for 30 participants (11 women and 19 men) in Tbilisi. The national authorities will begin cascading the TAHCLE training to all relevant police units. • On 8 April, ODIHR signed an MoU with the Spanish MoI to implement TAHCLE. As a consequence, from 22 to 24 May, ODIHR conducted a needs assessment visit to Madrid to understand the scope and nature of biasmotivated crimes and to inform about the implementation of TAHCLE. In total, ODIHR held meetings with 22 (11 women and 11 men) representatives from 14 CSO representatives working on hate crime, discrimination, hate speech and providing support to refugees and migrants, LGBTI Roma and Muslim communities, ten MoI representatives, (three women and seven men) 45 Training Against Hate Crimes for Law Enforcement (TAHCLE) - http://www.osce. org/odihr/tahcle. Stakeholders at an ODIHR training course on ‘Protecting Human Rights and Effectively Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalization that May Lead to Terrorism’ for Spanish police officers, Albacete, Spain, November 2019. (Kenneth Pennington) of the MoI (including National Hate Crime Office and Criminal Statistics Department, police, civil guard and representatives of the Chief Prosecutor’s Office specialized on hate crimes). ODIHR also organized an awarenessraising workshop on hate crimes for 41 representatives from the National Police and Guardia Civil (11 women and 30 men) and participated in the TAHCLE National Implementation WG meeting where the TAHCLE curriculum was presented and customization process and next steps were explained. From 19 to 26 June, ODIHR conducted two TAHCLE ToT sessions for the representatives of the Spanish National Police and Civil Guards in Madrid. The training gathered 61 participants (14 women and 47 men) and covered the key aspects of addressing hate crimes, including defining hate crimes, bias indicators, investigation aspects and victim support, as well as practical sessions for the future trainers. • On 4 April, ODIHR delivered an awareness-raising seminar for senior representatives of the Czech Police and MoI in Prague. The event gathered 26 participants (six 137