From 26-27 May, TNTD/SPMU organized the Annual
HoLEDs meeting in Belgrade, Serbia. The meeting gathered
50 representatives from the OSCE field operations, the
Secretariat, ODIHR, UNODC and two civil society
organizations, in order to enhance the exchange of
information and the co-ordination of activities between
the OSCE’s executive structures and relevant international
partner organizations involved in police-related activities.
The meeting addressed, inter alia, TNTD/SPMU activities
in 2015/2016, regional co-operation of the OSCE executive
structures and international partners, police-related activities
of other executive structures in the OSCE Secretariat and
at ODIHR, and activities in addressing VERLT initiated by
the OSCE and its international partner organizations, as
well as regional threat assessments conducted by working
groups aiming to identify areas of regional co-operation in
countering these threats.
From 24-25 August, TNTD participated in a meeting of
UNODC’s Law Enforcement Advisors and Co-ordinators of
Law Enforcement Projects/Programmes that are stationed in
UNODC’s Regional Offices around the world. Representatives
from a number of regional and international police training
schools and academies also participated. The meeting,
which was held at the UNODC Headquarters in Vienna, was
dedicated to law enforcement-related training with a special
focus on new training methods, such as e-learning and offline-learning centres.
From 15 July-10 August, TNTD assisted the OSCE Mission
in Serbia and the ODIHR Legislative Support Unit in
preparing an opinion and reviewing a new Law on Police for
the Republic of Serbia. TNTD provided the OSCE Mission in
Serbia and ODIHR with a number of comments.
On 17 September, TNTD participated in the workshop on
“Developing OSCE approaches in preventing and combating
torture and enforced disappearances”, organized by the
Civic Solidarity Platform in Warsaw, Poland. The event was
sponsored by the OSCE Troika and aimed to discuss a draft
decision on “The prevention of torture and other cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”, supported
by the OSCE Serbian Chairmanship. The workshop was
attended by around 40 participants from TNTD, ODIHR,
and various NGOs.
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On 18 November, TNTD, upon invitation from DCAF,
participated in the fifteenth Meeting of the Governing
Board of DCAF’s International Security Sector Advisory
Team (ISSAT), held in Brussels, Belgium. This was the third
time since 2013 that TNTD was invited to this meeting,
which serves to inform the Governing Board Members
about ISSAT’s past and future security sector reform (SSR)
activities as well as to exchange updated information of SSRrelated activities of the Governing Board Members.
From 24-25 November, TNTD participated in the regional
HoLEDs meeting for South-Eastern Europe, held in Skopje,
the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Regional
HoLEDs-TNTD meetings provide an opportunity to exchange
information and to strengthen regional co-operation and coordination. A decision was made to create a regional e-mail
address to facilitate and speed up the exchange of project
ideas. TNTD informed participants about planned activities
for 2016 and the TNT-related draft documents prepared for
the Belgrade MC. Discussions on transnational threats in the
region revealed that organized crime is assessed as the most
significant criminal threat, followed by drug trafficking and
terrorism.
Anti-Corruption
From 18-20 November, TNTD attended the fifteenth
Annual Professional Conference and General Assembly of
the European Partners against Corruption (EPAC-EACN),
hosted by the French General Inspection of the National
Police (IGPN) and organized by EPAC/EACN in Paris.
The conference covered different aspects of corruption
and the link between prevention and repression in fighting
corruption. The conference brought together 86 delegates
from law enforcement authorities and anti-corruption bodies
of 32 Member States of the CoE and the EU.
Community Policing and
Police-Public Relations
From 23-24 June, TNTD participated in the Regional
Conference on Community Policing, titled “Establishment
and Efficient Use of Community Safety Forums”, held in
Pristina. TNTD gave a presentation on the OSCE’s approach
in implementing community policing and the organization’s
lessons learned in establishing community safety forums.
The event gathered some 60 community policing experts
from police agencies, local municipalities, community safety
forums, and civil society organizations from South-Eastern
Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States of America,
the OSCE, and EULEX, who shared their experiences and
good practices in establishing police-public partnerships.
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