Activities of the Transnational Threats Department Cybercrime From 24 and 25 January and 28 February to 1 March, training courses on collecting and documenting evidence from on-line sources took place in Kragujevac, Serbia, for 12 police officers and Novi Sad for ten police officers. On 14 and 15 February, a seminar was organized on the introduction to cybercrime and digital evidence for 12 police officers in Banja Luka. TNTD/SPMU also finalized the development of training material (in both Albanian and Macedonian languages) for a course on handling digital evidence, which was donated to police training institutions in the respective countries. From 25 to 27 February, during a panel devoted to capacitybuilding programmes in the “Conference on Criminal Justice in Cyberspace” in Bucharest, organized by the CoE and Romanian Presidency of the Council of the EU, TNTD/SPMU presented the OSCE’s activities in combating cybercrime. On the margins of the event, TNTD/SPMU held working level meetings with representatives of the CoE’s Cybercrime Programme Office to co-ordinate future activities. During 2019, a second round of national training activities was organized by beneficiaries of the project “Capacity-Building for Criminal Justice Practitioners Combating Cybercrime and Cyber-enabled Crime in South-Eastern Europe”, a joint initiative of TNTD/SPMU and FOs in the region. In Serbia, a training course on collecting and documenting evidence from online sources took place on 28 and 29 March in Zlatibor and 18 and 19 April in Niš, in total, targeting 22 police officers. In North Macedonia, a course on open-source intelligence investigation for 19 police officers took place on from 1 to 2 April in Skopje. In BiH, training on introduction to cybercrime and cyber-enabled crime was organized for 24 police officers from 8-10 May in Sarajevo. From 13 to 17 May, TNTD/SPMU organized a training course on live data forensics for 19 police officers in Tirana. TNTD/SPMU also supported development of national versions of the training material for a course on handling digital evidence in BiH and Montenegro, which were donated to the respective police training agencies. On 12 March, at the “3rd International Conference on Cybersecurity and Cybercrime” in Sarajevo, TNTD/SPMU presented this project and the OSCE’s work in the field of cybercrime and cybersecurity. On 24 May, in co-operation with the OSCE Chairmanship and hosted by the Austrian Federal MoI, TNTD/SPMU organized a concluding conference “Crime in the Digital Age: Enhancing Capacities of Criminal Justice Institutions across the OSCE Area” in Vienna. In front of some 140 criminal justice practitioners and representatives of participating States, OSCE Partners for Co-operation and international organizations, discussions focused on achievements, challenges, lessons learned as well as topics relating to responses of criminal justice institutions, role of digital technologies in conducting or facilitating criminal activities, key elements of capacity-building and future trends. Panelists also explored areas of the OSCE’s future engagement in combating cybercrime, focusing on the SEE and Central Asia regions. On 14 May, TNTD/SPMU contributed to a consultative expert meeting on cybercrime, organized by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) in co-operation with the CoE in Vienna. The OSCE provided its views and recommendations regarding the development of a handbook on cybercrime being developed by FRA. In so doing, TNTD/SPMU provided information about the main features of cybercrime, the available legal and technical tools and jurisprudence. From 17 to 21 June, TNTD/SPMU conducted a needs assessment visit to Yerevan, led by two TNTD/SPMU contracted experts, to assist the criminal justice institutions to better understand their challenges and capacity-building needs in investigating and prosecuting cybercrime. On 6 November, in front of 29 national partners and stakeholders, TNTD/SPMU presented the draft report entitled “Assessment of national capacities in investigating and prosecuting cybercrime in Armenia”, with the final version agreed with the institutions. From 7 to 11 October, aimed at improving the response of the criminal justice system in addressing crimes committed using IT devices, in co-operation with the Georgian MoI’s Academy and CoE, TNTD/SPMU organized training in Tbilisi on computer forensic for six officials from different national institutions, thereby facilitating the establishment of a ‘pool of experts’ who can support other criminal justice practitioners in data recovery. The training provided participants with an in-depth knowledge on the information recovery cycle, investigation and use of data. On 19 November, TNTD/SPMU facilitated a workshop in Baku on enhancing co-operation between the private and public sector in the fight against cybercrime for 30 representatives from the Azerbaijan Government, CoE, Facebook, Microsoft, Austrian Institute of Technology and Ordina Belgium. During the workshop, panelists highlighted the achievements, challenges, and lessons learned stemming from current public-private partnerships, discussing also criminal justice responses to the role of digital technologies in conducting or facilitating law enforcement as well as the actions of the prosecution service in the fight against cybercrime. 25