• From 12 to 14 November, following a request from the Slovak Ministry of Interior, ODIHR delivered the second ToT on hate crimes in Bratislava. The training gathered 30 participants (five women and 25 men) from the MoI, the Academy of Police Force, the National Counter Terrorism Unit, Secondary Schools of Police Force, Regional Departments of Riot Police and the National Centre for Human Rights. Supervisors from these institutions will then task the participants of the event to deliver the training on hate crimes to the colleagues as a part of inservice training and to the students of the Police Academy and Regional Secondary Police Schools; • From 27 to 29 November, as part of the support given to implement and cascade the TAHCLE programme in Italy, ODIHR delivered a three-day ToT on hate crimes to 25 participants (13 women and 12 men) from the National Police and Carabinieri from various parts of Italy. This was the second training event held in Italy, organized by ODIHR in co-operation with the Italian Observatory for Security against Discriminatory Acts (OSCAD). The trained trainers will continue disseminating TAHCLE across the country with the support of OSCAD; • On 11 December, ODIHR co-organized, with the Czech Republic’s Government Agent for Human Rights, an Awareness-raising Seminar on Hate Crimes, which gathered 43 experts (21 women and 22 men).2 Participants included representatives of the Government Office, Deputy Minister of Justice, Director of the General Inspection of Security Forces (an independent police oversight authority), as well as representatives of the MoI, the Police Presidium and civil society organizations. The seminar focused on the comprehensive approach to addressing hate crimes. The participants discussed the impact of hate crimes on the victims and their specific needs throughout and beyond the criminal proceedings, the need to record and collect hate crime data, and to build the capacities of police and prosecution in investigating and prosecuting hate crimes. Besides the ongoing collaboration between ODIHR and the Prosecutor General on future implementation of the Prosecutors and Hate Crime Training (PAHCT), implementation of TAHCLE with the police was discussed and further steps to be undertaken by ODIHR were agreed upon. 150 goal of understanding and improving hate crime recording and data collection. The workshops are based on principles in ODIHR’s Hate Crime Data Collection and Monitoring Mechanisms: A Practical Guide.3 • On 8 March, ODIHR facilitated in Vilnius a workshop on improvements to recording hate crime in Lithuania. ODIHR co-organized the workshop with the Lithuanian MoI and the FRA. The 20 participants (12 women and eight men) included staff of the MoI, police, judicial administration, Prosecutor’s Office and NGOs monitoring hate crime. At the event, the MoI committed itself to work with the police to implement the most urgent recommendations from the workshop – in particular changes to the police ICT systems for registering crimes. The resulting report, compiled by ODIHR and FRA, summarized the meeting’s recommendations; • On 13 and 14 March, ODIHR co-organized with the FRA and the Ministry of Justice in Lisbon two events on hate crimes for officials from various Portuguese law enforcement and criminal justice, as well as victim support bodies. Twenty-six participants (14 men and 12 women) attended the awareness-raising workshop for high-ranking officials on 13 March. The workshop on hate crime data on 14 March brought together 23 participants (14 men and nine women) for a focused discussion on current systems for registration of crimes and potential improvements to these systems, enabling correct recording of hate crimes by various Portuguese police forces. Managers and working level staff of the same criminal justice bodies attended this meeting. The workshops led to a joint ODIHR-FRA report with technical recommendations for Portuguese authorities. ODIHR continues engaging with the authorities on the implementation of these recommendations; In 2018, ODIHR also continued co-operation with the participating States on improving their hate crime data collection systems. The Office organized workshops in Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Slovakia with the • On 22 March, ODIHR facilitated in Warsaw a workshop on hate crime recording and data collection, co-organized with the MoI and Administration and the FRA. The workshop brought together twenty participants (nine women and 11 men), comprising police hate crime coordinators, staff from General Police Headquarters, and crime statistics focal points from the Ministry of Justice and Prosecutor General’s Office. The aim of the workshop was to look for possible improvements in police recording of hate crimes in Poland, with a specific focus on the work of police hate crime co-ordinators. The workshop produced a number of practical ideas for changes in the ICT infrastructure used by frontline police to register hate crime cases; 2 3 See www.osce.org/odihr/406352. See www.osce.org/odihr/datacollectionguide.