POLICE-RELATED ACTIVITIES OF FIELD OPERATIONS SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE future” in the municipality of Prizren. The event aimed at promoting multi-ethnic interaction and co-operation between students of different ethnicities, enhance visibility of LPSCs in respective municipalities, and establish links between them and the KP with a view to reduce the crime rate and improve safety and security within their quarters. It brought together 65 participants from Albanian, Roma and Serbian communities, consisting of secondary and high school students aged from 16 to 21 from Rahovec/Orahovac and Mitrovica/ Mitrovicë North. LPSC chairpersons, police officers and the Deputy Commander of Rahovec/Orahovac Police Station also attended the event, at which youngsters learned about advocacy, negotiation skills and the importance of dialogue. On 26 November, in its efforts to promote the initiatives of community safety forums at the grassroots level, the Mission successfully facilitated the completion of the installation of indoor and outdoor surveillance cameras in 15 primary schools across Kosovo. This activity, aimed at improving safety in schools and neighbourhoods, had a positive impact in strengthening the partnerships of LPSCs with the KP, municipalities, civil society and other actors operating in the area of community safety. The activity is part of the Mission’s efforts to support community safety small-scale projects identified by members of LPSCs from different communities who work together with the police at their localities, share their concerns and find solutions to common problems. By the end of each of these LPSC initiatives, closure events were organized by LPSCs in their respective communities. The monitoring of these camera systems will be done by LPSC coordinators on a weekly basis, in close co-operation with the respective local institutions. Municipal Community Safety Councils (MCSC) On 30 April 2018, the DHRC of the Mission organized a workshop targeting MCSCs to discuss new Guidelines for local-level mechanisms on how to respond to incidents affecting communities, developed jointly by the Ministry for Communities and Returns, MoI and the Ministry for Local Government Administration, with the Mission’s support. The activity gathered 51 participants including deputy mayors for communities, DCMAC, heads of MOCRS, MCSC co-ordinators and members, representatives of religious communities, KP station commanders and other municipal bodies from Fushë Kosovë/Kosovo Polje, Gračanica/ Graçanicë, Lipjan/Lipljan, Obiliq/Obilić, Prishtinë/ Priština and Shtime/Štimlje municipalities. During the workshop, participants discussed ways of local-level mechanisms’ timely and efficient response to security incidents affecting communities and shared best practices and proposed recommendations on improving the work of local-level security forums. On 31 May, the Mission completed the facilitation of four capacity-building workshops for all community safety forums in the northern municipalities organized by the nominated future MCSC co-ordinators with the support of the KP regional community policing co-ordinator in Mitrovica/Mitrovicë North. Following the successful implementation of a similar activity in 2017 in four respective primary schools in the north, the workshops aimed to equip municipal mayors, MCSC co-ordinators, police station commanders, LPSC representatives and local activists with the skills to deal with a wide range of community safety management issues, including vertical and horizontal cooperation and co-ordination. Special emphasis was given to the proportional participation of women and men, role of the parental council in future MCSCs, with a discourse on community safety initiatives targeting youth, elderly and people with disabilities. In total, more than 400 girls and boys, and over 90 teachers, school directors, KP officers, fire-fighters, municipal officials, civil society representatives and community safety activists, attended the workshops in the northern municipalities. From 9 October to 13 November, the Mission supported the facilitation of eight specialized thematic workshops for community safety forums in all KP regions, organized by the MoI in co-ordination with the hosting MCSC co-ordinators and respective regional KP directorates. Workshops delivered three unique sessions with targeted discussions on MCSCs’ functionality and performance, weighted against the most pressing regional challenges discussed throughout the year. A varying degree of attention was dedicated to the topics of intra- and inter-municipal collaboration, participation, public awareness, THB, P/C VERLT, gender equality and security, domestic violence, youth violence, and the use of digital and online platforms. With civil and police experts’ lectures on treating the negative phenomena and potential action to be taken through improved synergies of safety forums and responsible municipal and central institutions, the participants also deliberated on objective requirements for a revision of the existing Administrative Instruction on MCSCs, with an emphasis on composition, compensation and membership. With 200 participants in total, the regional workshops were chaired by four mayors and four deputy mayors, with the contribution of 11 KP station commanders and deputy commanders, 13 regional police experts, and 56 municipal directors and officials as members of the MCSCs, alongside other local stakeholders. Gender-based and Domestic Violence On 9 March in Prizren, the DHRC of the Mission organized a roundtable discussion on the role of judicial and non-judicial stakeholders in combating domestic violence. The focus of this event was on the shortcomings in the implementation 65