4.5 Mission to Serbia · Developing a comprehensive approach to dealing with VERLT; · Enhancing inter-agency co-operation to increase and improve prosecution of corruption and economic crimes (including money-laundering); · Building police capacities in cyber forensics and investigating cybercrime; · Promoting OSCE’s comprehensive approach to SSR; · Strengthening mechanisms responsible for protecting victims of trafficking; · Supporting the implementation of the Strategy and Action Plan to Prevent and Suppress Human Trafficking, with a focus on trafficking in women and children; and · Controlling SALW. Activities Related to General Police Development and Reform Police Development and Reform From 4 to 5 June, the Mission supported the Slovak OSCE Chairmanship-in-Office and Secretariat in organizing a regional meeting on SSR in Belgrade. The event gathered 120 senior practitioners from the national security sectors, academia and civil society in the SEE region. The event was the first in a series of regional workshops organized to build greater understanding of how the OSCE can improve its assistance to participating States in national reform process. Human Resources / Police Management To support reforms within the MoI’s human resource management system and to contribute to achieving a more representative police service, from March to June, the Mission supported the MoI and Vocational Police Association European Police Officers of Roma Nationality in organizing an information sharing campaign on the requirements for applying for basic police training. Over 400 participants representing Serbia’s national minorities learned about the requirements and selection process for enrolling in the training. An outreach campaign in March was organized in 17 Belgrade municipalities27 while a similar campaign, in June, was organized in 15 municipalities28. To renew the Association’s Action Plan, the Mission facilitated a seminar in Vrnjačka Banja, where the Association discussed the challenges faced by national minorities’ representatives in accessing police education and employment. 27 Barajevo, Čukarica, Grocka, Lazarevac, Mladenovac, Novi Beograd, Obrenovac, Palilula, Rakovica, Savski Venac, Sopot, Stari Grad, Surčin, Voždovac, Vračar, Zemun and Zvezdara. 28 Belgrade, Bor, Jagodina, Niš, Novi Pazar, Novi Sad, Pančevo, Pirot, Požarevac, Prokuplje, Smederevo, Šabac, Valjevo, Vranje and Zrenjanin. 82 On 6 June, in co-operation with the MoI’s Basic Police Training Centre, the Mission organized a seminar in Belgrade for the MoI’s recruitment focal points from most police districts. During the event, 40 participants learned about selection and enrolment procedures required for basic police training and exchanged experiences regarding outreach activities in their respective local communities. This was the third seminar organized since the establishment of the network of recruitment focal points in December 2017. From 28 to 30 June, the Mission supported a joint retreat in Vrnjačka Banja for the Vocational Police Association “European Police Officers of Roma Nationality” and officials in the MoI’s PD and Sector for HRM. The retreat served as a vehicle for developing the Association’s Action Plan for 2020/2021, based on the evaluation of impact made so far, the needs and proposals by representatives of national minorities and MoI, as well as the findings from a key strategic governmental and civil society analysis on advancing the representative nature of the police service. From 27 November to 20 December, to consolidate the competence of participants in curriculum development, and reflect the reform of HRM, in co-operation with the MoI, the Mission organized a four-week training in Belgrade for eight participants from the MoI’s Police Training Centre on contemporary training needs analysis and on structuring training programmes with the accompanying curricula. The training focused on the application of theoretical approaches, while participants used their current work assignments in the development of the curricula. From 9 to 17 December, in partnership with the MoI, the Mission organized a training workshop in Belgrade on police training evaluation. The workshop provided 15 participants with the latest approaches to training evaluation and served to identify the modalities for the implementation of a twoweek programme on training evaluation, which is scheduled to take place in 2020.