OSCE’s assistance to police reform and development as well as the fight against organized transnational crime. The TNTD/SPMU strived for maximum programmatic co-ordination of its activities among the OSCE executive structures and with international and regional organizations and NGOs in order to avoid duplications and to provide added value. The Unit co-operated with other partners in organizing a number of needs assessments, workshops, conferences, meetings and training events, described in this document. On 22-23 May, the Unit organized a meeting with the Heads of Law Enforcement Departments and Programmes (field operations) to address issues of common interest. Other thematic units from the Secretariat as well as representatives from ODIHR and the HCNM also participated in the meeting in order to enhance the exchange of information between various executive structures involved in police-related activities. In addition, Delegations of the participating States were also invited to the meeting to give them the opportunity to meet the field operations’ representatives in person and to receive insight from the field. On 24-25 October, the TNTD/SPMU held the 2013 “OSCE Annual Police Experts Meeting” (APEM) in Vienna, devoted to the topic of ‘Improving the Role of the OSCE in Police-related Activities - Experiences and Lessons Learned’. The main objective of the APEM was to create a platform for participating States and international partner organizations to exchange experiences and good practices in implementing community policing in the context of police reform with the aim to strengthen safety and security in participating States. The plenary sessions focussed on the exchange of experiences and good practices in strategic planning and implementation of community policing and crime prevention at the legislative, strategic, procedural, organizational and training level. This compilation of good practices was expected to guide participating States in improving their crime prevention efforts. In line with its task to share information on police-related activities, and in accordance with the 2001 Ministerial Council Decision MC(9).DEC/9 ‘on police-related activities’, the Unit released the Annual Report of the Secretary General on Police-Related Activities in 2012 [SEC.DOC/1/13] on 2 August. The report provides a comprehensive overview of policerelated programmes and projects, implemented by all OSCE executive structures during 2012. In the field of general police development and reform, activities devoted to enhancing and consolidating community policing/police-public partnership projects were still most common (almost one-third of all activities), particularly in South-Eastern Europe and certain States of Central Asia and the South Caucasus. Support in strategic planning of police reform, development of national police training capacity as well as measures for enhancing police accountability were the other three areas receiving most attention by the executive structures upon request of their host States. Police-media relations, border and customs activities, domestic violence and public order management also received notable attention. With regard to the fight against organized crime, THB related activities remained the most prominent field of work, with one-third of all project activities devoted to this topic. These projects were particularly in the focus of field operations in Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and within the Secretariat. As in 2011, the fight against counter-terrorism received the second greatest attention, closely followed by activities addressing cyber security/cybercrime and the fight against illicit drugs and precursors. Criminal investigations, as well as financial investigations, anti-money laundering and corruption also received prominent attention, while somewhat less attention was given to forensics and travel document security. The Unit also continued assisting the field operations and participating States in developing police training and in organizing study tours for law enforcement representatives from participating States to other countries and institutions where they could observe and learn about good practices and standards in various fields of policing. 22