SOUTH CAUCASUS 4.9 Office in Baku Background The Police Assistance Programme of the OSCE Office in Baku (OiB) started in 2003 with a comprehensive needs assessment conducted by the OSCE Secretariat’s SPMU. The assessment identified four main areas of policing that required international support: the development of a community policing model; a review of the curriculum at the Centre for Police Induction Training; the introduction of best practice-based teaching methods; and the development and introduction of a modern curriculum for traffic police training. Since the initial introduction of the Programme, further projects have been implemented, addressing additional fields of policing such as the fight against organized crime, trafficking in human beings, cybercrime, and terrorism. In 2013, the OiB also continued building the capacity of law enforcement officials in the fields of public assembly management and fighting domestic violence, in line with OSCE commitments and best practices in other OSCE participating States. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the Ministry of National Security (MNS) actively engaged in the events, organized by the OiB, including in-service trainings on public assembly management; antitrafficking; domestic violence; cybercrime; organized crime; and terrorism. Furthermore, the Office co-operated with the MIA and State Customs Committee in organizing training activities on controlled deliveries of drugs. The Office also continued promoting an exchange of best practices with other OSCE participating States. In addition, the OiB facilitated the participation of Azerbaijani police in the OSCE Annual Police Experts Meeting in Vienna (see chapter 2.2) and organized three exchange visits to various OSCE participating States on the issues of organized crime and countering terrorism for middle and high ranking law-enforcement agencies. At the end of 2013, the OiB transformed into the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku, in line with a Permanent Council decision adopted in July. Public Assembly Management In 2013, the OiB within the framework of its project “Support to Building Training Capacity in Public Assembly Management” printed some 200 copies of the Trainers Manual on Public Assembly Management (PAM) as well as related materials, including DVDs containing the visual training materials. From 8-19 April, the OiB organized a ToT on “Public Assembly Management” for the staff of the MIA in Baku. Six police officers from Baku, six officers from Internal Troops and four police officers of the MIA of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (NAR) participated in a two-week programme developed and conducted in Baku by four experts from the Turkish National Police (TNP) and two from the Azerbaijani Police. The Trainers Manual developed in the previous phase of the project was the main reference material used during the training. Trainers applied interactive methods intensively giving participants the opportunity to deliver short training sessions in the frame of the main sessions of the programme. As a result of the ToT, 16 mid-level officials of the Azerbaijani security agencies became PAM trainers and 115