APPENDIX 1 ODIHR Annual Report on Police-Related Activities for 2016 Submitted as appendix to the SG Annual Report on Police-Related Activities, in accordance with Decision 9, paragraph 6, of the Bucharest Ministerial Council Meeting, 4 December 2001 Introduction The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) provides police-related assistance to governments and civil society in OSCE participating States in close co-operation with other OSCE executive structures and international organizations. General Police Development and Reform Police Development and Reform within Security Sector Reform (including Gender Mainstreaming) In 2016, ODIHR received several requests for legislative assistance concerning the review of criminal procedure codes or legislation, in particular pertaining to biasmotivated crimes, counter-terrorism and the crime of forced disappearance. Following these requests, ODIHR prepared legal opinions providing concrete recommendations for amendments of respective draft or existing legislation to ensure their compliance with relevant international standards and OSCE commitments. ODIHR closely collaborated with the Transnational Threats Department (TNTD)’s Action Against Terrorism Unit (ATU) to prepare the legal Opinion on the Draft Amendments to the Legal Framework on Countering Extremism and Terrorism in the Republic of Kazakhstan1, which was published on 6 October. ODIHR also supported the process of amending the criminal codes of Moldova and of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia by reviewing and commenting on draft provisions pertaining to bias-motivated crimes2. ODIHR provided legislative 134 1 OSCE/ODIHR Opinion on the Draft Amendments to the Legal Framework on Countering Extremism and Terrorism in the Republic of Kazakhstan (6 October 2016), available at http://www.legislationline.org/documents/id/20060 (English version) and http://www.legislationline.org/ru/documents/id/20061 (Russian version). 2 OSCE/ODIHR Comments on Draft Amendments to certain Provisions of the Criminal Code of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia regarding Bias-motivated Crimes (14 April 2016), available at http://www.legislationline.org/topics/country/31/topic/4; and Opinion on Draft Amendments to the Moldovan Criminal and Contravention Codes relating to Bias-motivated Offences (15 March 2016), available at http://www. legislationline.org/topics/country/14/topic/4. assistance to the Republic of Armenia by reviewing and commenting on certain provisions of its Criminal Procedure Code pertaining to the presence of attesting witnesses during criminal investigations3, to Tunisia, as an OSCE Mediterranean Partner for Co-operation, by analyzing its Draft Act on the Crime of Enforced Disappearance4, and to Ukraine by reviewing draft legislation on freedom of peaceful assembly, including comments pertaining to the policing of assemblies5. In addition to legislative assistance, ODIHR also promoted exchanges of good practices on current criminal justice reforms and police matters in Central Asia at ODIHR’s Sixth Expert Forum on Criminal Justice for Central Asia, organized in Tashkent from 16 to 18 November. The Expert Forum was organized in partnership with the OSCE field operations in Central Asia, particularly the Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan (PCUz) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Issues related to police evaluation, ‘clear-up rates’ and law-enforcement agent training needs for gender-sensitive interactions with female victims of crimes were discussed. In particular, participants observed that police performance evaluation methodologies should not, directly or indirectly, foster reliance on evidence obtained under torture. 3 OSCE/ODIHR Opinion on the Draft Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia (15 July 2016), available at http://www.legislationline.org/ documents/id/20011. 4 OSCE/ODIHR Opinion on the Draft Act on the Crime of Enforced Disappearance of Tunisia (6 May 2016), available at http://www.legislationline.org/countries/ country/63. 5 Available at http://www.legislationline.org/topics/country/52/topic/15.