4.6 Mission to Skopje The Mentoring Programme activities also covered success indicators, revealing good results that were presented at the evaluation and closing event. The evaluation and closing event of the Mentoring Program for Women in Police – Phase II was organized by the Mission and the Police Union on 22 November. For the coming year, the Mission plans to continue the programme, selecting a new generation of mentors and mentees but also continuing to work with the recent mentors. This will include ToT activities and an awareness-raising campaign on gender issues. Community Policing, Police-Public Relations and Crime Prevention From 29 to 31 October, the Mission, together with SIA Kumanovo and the MoI, organized a three-day workshop on “Pre-conditions for the establishment of a Crime Prevention Experts Panel”. The workshop targeted participants from all eight SIAs and from the MoI. Despite the active work in the last years, police prevention officers do not have the conditions for a structured exchange of information. This lack of regular communication deprives them of a peer response and feedback on the challenges of routine prevention interventions. The workshop focused on developing recommendations for the WG on a community engagement strategy for the MoI. The discussions were organized in three modules: exchange of information among the SIAs and comments from the leading structure in the MoI; best practices from international experience in organizing prevention activities; and a discussion on the challenges, community policing, prevention actors and recommendations for crime prevention policies in general. From 5 December to 8 December, the Mission organized workshops on the occasion of the “9th December – Police Prevention Day” in Bitola, SIA Kumanovo, Stip, Strumica, Ohrid, Tetovo and Veles. The events were attended by Mission representatives, mayors of the mentioned cities, presidents of the municipal councils, representatives of the Public Prosecution Office, the Ombudsperson, NGOs, education sector, principals, and all the associates from the primary and secondary schools. The workshops focused in the main on the LPCs programme, recognized as a tool for crime prevention and early identification instrument of local problems, in partnership with local communities. On 7 December, the Mission, in co-operation with the MoI, organized a one-day roundtable meeting on prevention, marking the tenth anniversary of police prevention activities in the country. In total, 40 delegates from the MoI and from Local Self Government, including 11 mayors from the City of Skopje, attended the event. At the event, a new booklet on LPCs was presented, as was an analysis of the key findings of a report and data related to a policing survey conducted 100 between 2002 and 2017. The report analysed in depth two very important aspects of police work: trust and satisfaction. An external expert presented the analysis of the results obtained through several scientific research projects conducted by the Mission, and compared the data of this longitudinal study so as to understand the changes in public opinion regarding the work and performance of the police. The scope of the report was to narrow down the large data files and information from the research to provide the most useful and ready-to-use insight on how the police should improve its work. Gender-based and Domestic Violence From 3 July to 10 October, the Mission organized six oneday workshops on “Enhancing Police Gender Sensitivity in Violence against Women and Domestic Violence”, aiming to increase the professional capacities of police officers on international standards related to gender-based violence; the relevant provisions in the national legislation; and the role, protocol and procedures developed for the newly established Sexual Violence Referral Centres. In total, 136 police officers attended the workshops. Their main target audience was commanders of police stations, sector leaders, shift leaders, inspectors of domestic violence, inspectors of prevention, chiefs of Criminal Investigation Departments (CID), and other representatives of CIDs from the SIAs Tetovo, Kumanovo, Stip and Skopje. The workshops were implemented in cooperation with the MoI and UNDP. The events covered the existing laws on dealing with and preventing domestic violence, Standard Operational Procedures, and practical examples and challenges during the implementation. Hate Crime On 4 December, the Mission participated in the opening ceremony of a Hate Speech project in the SIA Tetovo area, covering 12 High Schools in Tetovo and Gostivar and a total of 2,500 students. Police officers from Gostivar Police Station delivered lectures on hate speech phenomena and encouraged students to participate in a painting competition on the topic, “Understand and Respect”. The paintings from this competition will be used for the 2019 community policing calendar. Public Order and Crisis Management From 3 to 7 September, as a continuation of a related activity in 2017, the Mission implemented the second phase of the “Crisis Management” initiative, focusing on a planning exercise that targeted the chiefs of uniformed police, police crisis inspectors and representatives from the MoI. The event was attended by other agencies, such as the Crisis Management Centre, the Protection and Rescue Directorate, the Radiation Safety Directorate, the Skopje Fire Fighting Brigade and the Ministry of Health. In total, 30 participants from all agencies participated in the workshop. At the workshop, a tabletop exercise was organized to assess the planning process