S outh - East e rn Europ e 4.4 Mission to Montenegro Introduction In 2019, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro (the Mission) continued to help strengthen a transparent, responsive and accountable security and public safety sector in Montenegro in line with OSCE politico-military commitments. Under the Mission’s Security Co-operation and Governance Programme one international (one position vacant) and three national staff members continued to implement priorities identified by the Mission documents as outlined below. Since 2005, policing in Montenegro has undergone a series of dynamic institutional changes. From 2005 to 2011, the Police Department (PD) acted as a separate public authority. In 2012, it was reintegrated into the MoI. In January 2019, it became operationally independent from MoI and hence re-established as separate entity once again23. BUDGET (UB)* 2019 2018 TOTAL TOTAL 2,152,100 EUR 20% 19% STAFF* 2,146,200 EUR 84% SECURITY COOPERATION AND GOVERNANCE PROGRAMME SECURITY CO-OPERATION/ POLICE AFFAIRS 402,600 EUR 420,100 EUR POLICE-RELATED ACTIVITIES (61% of the Security Co-Operation/ Police Affairs) POLICE-RELATED ACTIVITIES (52% of the Security Co-operation/ Police Affairs) 244,000 EUR 218,000 EUR 2019 2018 TOTAL SECURITY CO-OPERATION AND GOVERNANCE PROGRAMME Total 16% 5 Total 3 Local 2 International TOTAL SECURITY CO-OPERATION/ POLICE AFFAIRS 20% Total 35 7 Total 5 Local 2 International 32 74 * Figures on budget and staff provided by the Mission to Montenegro. 23 As per the Government’s Decision on Organization and Functioning of State Administration of 6 December 2018 Official Gazette of Montenegro] No. 87/2018, Art. 4 and 22). At the same session, the Government also adopted the corresponding Draft Law on Amending the Law on Internal Affairs, sending it to the Parliament, where its adoption remains pending.