ACTIVITIES OF THE TRANSNATIONAL THREATS DEPARTMENT Community Policing and Police-Public Relations On 11 May, Co/TNTD and TNTD/SPMU participated in the fifteenth meeting of the Police Cooperation Convention for Southeast Europe (PCC SEE) Committee of Ministers on the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the signing of the PCC SEE in Vienna, Austria. This meeting of the highest PCC SEE statutory body took place under the auspices of the Moldovan PCC SEE Chairmanship-in-Office, and was hosted by the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior. On 16 and 17 January, TNTD/SPMU, at the invitation of the NATO Emerging Security Challenges Division, participated in this first meeting of a group of community policing experts in Brussels, Belgium. During the meeting, participants discussed the framework of a NATO Science for Peace and Security (SPS) programme and lessons learned from community policing that could be applied in the military context. TNTD/SPMU presented the OSCE’s experience in introducing community policing among the participating States, and contributed to the drafting of the SPS project outline. The project is envisaged to produce a number of documents, including policy papers and books outlining the current state of research and practice, a handbook of principles and processes to introduce the concept of community policing, and a training module including scripted scenarios for operational training. From 18 to 20 May, TNTD/SPMU participated in the 44th INTERPOL European Regional Conference in Prague, the Czech Republic at the invitation of INTERPOL. The conference welcomed some 200 participants from INTERPOL’s European Region member countries and a number of observers including international organizations and interested member countries from other INTERPOL regions, and addressed the most recent and challenging issues in terms of international policing. The conference adopted recommendations related to operational support to member countries through INTERPOL’s national central bureaus (NCBs) on border management; proactive, co-ordinated efforts to disrupt drug networks, strengthening police cooperation and action against foreign terrorist fighters; and supporting the INTERPOL 2020 initiative. SPMU Guidebook on Democratic Policing and the TNTD/ ODIHR Manual on Human Rights in Counter-Terrorism Investigations. Some 30 participants from APT and Human Rights Council member states were present at the meeting and participated in the discussions. Other, including co-ordination and co-operation On 27 April, a joint delegation from TNTD/SPMU and CPC visited the headquarters of the European Gendarmerie Force (EGF) in Vicenza, Italy, to explore opportunities for possible co-operation. The visit was a follow-up to the EGF Presidency visit to Vienna, which included a presentation to the Security Committee, in December 2015. TNTD/ SPMU and CPC received a detailed overview of the mandate, mission, structure, means and modus operandi of the EGF. In turn, TNTD/SPMU and CPC gave a general introduction of the OSCE and presented their mandates and activities. Both the EGF and OSCE delegations agreed to keep each other informed on their respective activities should there be a potential mutual interest. On 9 and 10 May, TNTD/SPMU, upon invitation from the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) and the International Training Centre of the Ministry of Interior of Hungary, participated in a meeting of a working group of police commanders and practitioners in Budapest, Hungary. Participants discussed success and failure of international peace missions and the requirements for successful international interventions in post-conflict rehabilitation situations. The meeting focused on addressing challenges and requirements to co-ordinating between international and national actors before, during and after international interventions. On 7 and 8 June, TNTD/SPMU organized the annual meeting of the Heads of Law Enforcement Departments and Programmes of field operations (HoLEDs) in Vienna to address areas of common interest. Representatives from the OSCE Secretariat and ODIHR, as well as guest speakers from international organizations, participated in the meeting to enhance the exchange of information and the co-ordination of activities between the OSCE executive structures and relevant international partner organizations. These included CEPOL, the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), International Organization for Migration (IOM), INTERPOL, UNHCR and UNODC. Representatives from five OSCE participating State Delegations attended two sessions of the meeting. On 12 July, TNTD/SPMU participated in the annual meeting of CEPOL in Budapest, Hungary. The purpose of the stakeholders meeting was to introduce and discuss CEPOL’s Training Manual for the following year and gather inputs from key stakeholders. The meeting also served as a co-ordination venue for law enforcement training activities. CEPOL identified the OSCE, UNODC, INTERPOL, the PCC SEE and the Association of European Police Colleges (AEPC) as its five key external non-EU stakeholders. TNTD/SPMU introduced plans for the OSCE PAN, and discussed how the project could make use of CEPOL’s experiences and tools. 19