Executive Summary
In line with its mandate and the interests of participating
States, the OSCE continued to provide police assistance
in two major areas: 1) general police development and
reform, and 2) the fight against threats posed by criminal
activity, including organized crime, terrorism, illicit drugs
and chemical precursors, trafficking in human beings and
cybercrime.
Over three quarters of all police-related activities were
dedicated to addressing general police development and
reform, an increase from 2014. Activities devoted to
enhancing and consolidating community policing/policepublic partnership projects were still the most common,
particularly in South-Eastern Europe, as well as in Armenia
and Tajikistan. The proportion of activities devoted to
community policing added up to nearly half of all police
development and reform related activities, an increase of 8%
from 2014. Efforts to enhance police accountability through
police development and reform within security sector reform
(SSR), addressing gender-based and domestic violence, and
police monitoring and confidence building were the other
three areas that received most attention.
With regard to the fight against transnational threats,
activities related to organized crime in general was the most
prominent field of work, especially in the field operations
in Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, and the former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia, adding up to about 20% of all activities devoted
to this topic. This was directly followed by activities related to
countering trafficking in human beings, mostly implemented
in the field operations in Albania, Montenegro, Ukraine
and Armenia. Activities on counter-terrorism and fighting
violent extremism and radicalisation that lead to terrorism
(VERLT) and cybercrime received the third and fourth
greatest attention.
The following charts provide an overview of the OSCE’s
police-related activities in 2015:
Total Police-Related Activities in 2015 at a Glance
Total
Information
Exchange / Institution
and Capacity-Building
Analysis of Lessons
Learned, Assessments
and Guidelines
Training
ACTIVITIES ON:
General Police Development and Reform 70%
Threats posed by Criminal Activity 30%
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