as well as to identify ways to endorse the obligations and best practices contained in the Montreux Document. On 26 December, Serbia adopted the Law on Private Investigators and the Law on Private Security Companies. The Serbian MoI’s legal Secretariat was in charge of drafting the Law on Private Security Companies which was an important element in the country’s security sector reform process, as 50,000 people work in this sector in Serbia, which, until recently, was not legally regulated. ****** 4.6 Mission to Skopje Background The work of the Police Development Unit (PDU) of the Mission to Skopje is based on the Mission’s original mandate18 in policing of 1992 and on the OSCE Ministerial Council and PC decisions stemming from the Ohrid Framework Agreement (OFA) in 2001. According to the provisions in Annex C of the OFA, the Mission was called to assist in a number of specific areas, which were added to the initial mandate. They included the recruitment and training of 1,000 new police cadets from non-majority communities as well as a phased and coordinated redeployment of the national police personnel to the former crisis areas. Following the completion of the above task, the Mission’s Police Development Unit has been delivering and facilitating police training, supporting the development of a national Community Policing Programme, as well as providing expertise at the policy-planning level. Since March 2013, the Department of Public Safety and Community Outreach (PSCOD) has been operative with the aim of increasing internal co-ordination and effectiveness in the Mission’s early warning function. The Department includes the PDU and the Monitoring Unit a Unit within the Head of Mission Department until 2012. By moving these two pillars together, the Mission grouped all security-related activities under common supervision while maintaining their independent networks and specific functions. A common co-ordination was meant to ensure a prompt field response in critical situations in which full country-wide field coverage is needed. The PDU remained committed to fulfilling these overall security/early warning tasks, through addressing outstanding issues mainly related to Annex C, Paragraph 5.3 of the OFA. This included providing assistance in establishing a professional training system, and technical assistance to police reform as it relates to the implementation of the Law on Internal Affairs (LoIA) and its by-laws19. In line with the OSCE’s efforts in addressing emerging transnational threats, in 2013, the PDU concentrated its efforts also on the delivering of training and expertise in the fields of combating organized crime and terrorism as well as improving border security management. 18 19 The original mandate called on the Mission “to monitor developments along the border with Serbia and in other areas which may suffer from spillover of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, in order to promote respect for territorial integrity and the maintenance of peace, stability and security; and to help prevent possible conflict in the region”, see: CSCE Committee of Senior Officials, Mandate. Articles of Understanding Concerning CSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje, 12 August 1992, p. 1. A new Law on Internal Affairs was drafted in 2013 and adopted in March 2014. MoIA has further requested OSCE assistance for its implementation during the course of this year. 99