organized a Street Festival in September 2013 and purchased billboards and T-Shirts. The PRP, in co-operation with JDIs initiated an information campaign among children on road safety issues by distributing light reflectors, bookmarks and flyers not only during the Street Festival event but also at the Knowledge Day in Bishkek and Talas. The PRP also supported the Naryn Mayor’s Office and the Naryn Police Office in organizing a football tournament among juvenile, and the Kara-Suu Police Department (Osh region) in organizing a football and volleyball tournament among students and JDIs. In co-operation with the KWPA, the PRP supported an event in the Krasnorechenski Orphanage dedicated to the International Child Protection Day. Multi-Ethnic Component In October, the PRP continued to support multi-ethnic policing by organizing and supporting training in co-operation with the Kyzyl-Kyia Police Department (Batken region) on tolerance and multi-ethnicity for school children (aged 12 to 15) in Kyzyl-Kyia. Some 31 school children from three Kyrgyz, Russian and Uzbek secondary schools were trained. The PRP also provided for the renovation and refurbishment of the Youth Centre in Kyzyl-Kyia, a place where many ethnic minorities live; supported a local NGO working on youth issues in multiethnic communities; and provided video cameras for Secondary School #2 in Kyzyl-Kyia aimed to improve school children’ security. In addition, the PRP arranged four more activities aimed to improve multi-ethnic solidarity, including distributing sports equipment among youth in Iskra village (Chui region); supporting a volleyball tournament between Kyrgyz and Tajik residents of Kulundu village (Batken region); supporting the Osh City Police Department in organizing the activities dedicated to the 2010 June events; and conducting training for the Courts of Elders and Neighborhood Inspectors in Suzak (Jalal-Abad region) aimed to improve the role of elderly people in interethnic conflict resolution. In 2013, the PRP started to construct a building at the Chui Police Department (Chui region) to be used as a “new model” police station aimed to improve two-way communication between the police and the public. The new building aimed to serve as a hub for requests, concerns and complaints; provide space for the LCPC; and serve as a hospice for homeless people. The Youth Centre in Kyzyl-Kyia (Batken region) was renovated and refurbished for a local NGO, which works on youth issues in multi-ethnic societies. The PRP also supported financially the creation of a shelter for victims of domestic violence in Aravan (Osh region). The Aravan district administration provided a building and the PRP provided for the building’s renovation and refurbishment. In addition, construction materials were provided to the detention centre in Jalal-Abad and to the police department in Kok-Art. Moreover, the PRP continued to provide an Internet connection for the forensic centre in Osh and the Batken Police Department. The PRP also purchased two mini buses to be used as Mobile Police Receptions in order to support the regional police departments in their outreach to the communities. 137