The Annual Report of the Secretary General on Police-Related Activities in 2015 is submitted in accordance with Decision 9, Paragraph 6, of the 2001 Bucharest Ministerial Council Meeting. The report provides an overview of all police-related programmes and projects implemented by the OSCE executive structures, including the thematic units of the Secretariat, the institution, and the field operations, during 2015. The activities outlined and described in this report are based on a comprehensive list of mandates and tasks, which have been provided by various Ministerial Council and Permanent Council Decisions since 1998. The latest comprehensive set of mandates was adopted in 2012 with the Dublin Ministerial Council Decision No. 4/12 on the OSCE’s Efforts to Address Transnational Threats, which endorsed four decisions that had been adopted in 2012 by the Permanent Council, including the OSCE Strategic Framework for Police-Related Activities (PC.DEC/1049). With the adoption of these decisions, the participating States reaffirmed the key role that OSCE police-related activities play in the Organization’s efforts to address threats to security and stability posed by criminal activity as well as its efforts in the areas of conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation in the OSCE region. The report is drafted in close co-operation with all OSCE executive structures, including the thematic units of the Secretariat, the institutions, and the field operations. Each field operation chapter is based on their monthly reports given to the Permanent Council. These chapters are then reviewed and edited by TNTD/SPMU and subsequently sent for final review and clearance by the field operations. Likewise, the chapters on the Secretariat’s units and ODIHR are drafted by each unit and institution in close collaboration with TNTD/SPMU. After a short introduction, each chapter begins with information on the budget and staff for both 2015 and 2014 in order to be able to compare between the two years. The first page of each chapter illustrates the total budget and total staff of each field operation, including the proportion of the total that goes towards police-related activities. The figures on budget and staff in this report are taken from the Approval of the 2014 Unified Budget (PC.DEC/1123) and the Approval of the 2015 Unified Budget (PC. DEC/1158), and in close co-operation with all field operations. Following this short introduction, each chapter is then divided into the two main categories established by the OSCE Strategic Framework for Police-Related Activities (PC.DEC/1049): first, general police development and reform, and second, capacity-building to address threats posed by transnational crime. The activities are then further divided into sub-categories, in line with the mandated thematic areas in the Strategic Framework. At the end of each chapter, there are two charts to illustrate the total activities in two different ways. The ODIHR Annual Report on Police-Related Activities for 2015 is attached to this report in Appendix 1. Appendix 2 contains a list of all relevant and police-related OSCE Ministerial and Permanent Council Decisions and Action Plans. In Appendix 3, there is a list of all pertinent abbreviations and acronyms. A list of contact details of those within the OSCE executive structures that dealt with policing issues in 2015 is attached in Appendix 4. 10