Gender Mainstreaming With PRP support, leaders of the Kyrgyz Women Police Association (KWPA) attended the “Annual Meeting of Women Police Associations” in Germany. The PRP also supported KWPA by publishing outreach materials to be disseminated to MoI staff and civil society. In May, the PRP supported the KWPA in a two-day information seminar on “The Role of Female Police in the Modern Police: Expectations, Goals, Desire”. The target group of the seminar was female police officers, cadets and faculty staff of the Police Academy. During this seminar, the female CSI Police Advisers made presentations on gender issues and policy. Police Training The CiB supported the police training and education component in 2013 by means of capacity building and consultancy, with diminished focus on material support. The programme activities were designed to be both systematic and comprehensive, as well as to be in line with the police reform measures. The PRP rendered to organize the “Human Rights Summer School” in co-ordination with the Police Academy’s Human Rights Centre and the National Centre of the Kyrgyz Republic on Prevention of Torture, and Other Inhuman or Degrading Treatment. Training modules and curricula – which included such topics as human rights, torture prevention, gender and ethnic issues – were developed by the Police Academy instructors. The summer school was delivered at the MoI Recreation resort for 30 senior and mid-level police officers from all regions of Kyrgyzstan. Aimed at enhancing police education as an essential part of the police reform process in Kyrgyzstan the “Summer School” was foreseen to become an annual event. The PRP’s support to the transformation of the Police Academy (PA) into a modern police educational institution has been used by the PA to a limited extent only. Arrangements made with the former PA management in regard to some activities were favoured by the new management. Nevertheless, some consultancy services were delivered to improve the “Higher Academic Course” and “Refresher Training” at the PA. An external expert, hired by the PRP to provide assistance for achieving the PA’s compliance with the Bologna system, concluded that the PA was at the nascent stage of considering the process. Forensics Co-operation with the MoI continued to enhance the effectiveness of criminal investigation in accordance with democratic principles to improve the understanding of analysis and evidence-based policing. In this regard, the Forensic Centre and the Public Order Management Unit of the Police Academy were supported by the Centre in various activities. The MoI Forensic Centre was supported through expertise rendered by an expert of the Georgian Forensic Centre to deliver training courses on “Crime Scene Investigation after Explosion” in order to improve the capacity of the 16 Kyrgyz Forensic experts. As a follow-up activity the PRP supported a working trip of three Forensic experts to the Georgian Forensic Centre to share experiences in the use of forensic methods and tools. In addition, the PRP supported the attendance of seven experts of the Forensic Centre at a conference on “International Police Forensic Laboratories” to enhance their expertise on drugs and psychotropics at the Turkish Police Academy in Ankara. 134