POLICE-RELATED ACTIVITIES OF FIELD OPERATIONS SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE corruption risks and threats different staff posts within the MoI may be exposed to. The experts also provided the SIC with input necessary for finalizing the methodology for corruption risk assessments. Community Policing, Police-Public Relations and Crime Prevention On 25 January, the Mission, together with the MoI and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, produced a handbook on the “Basics of Child Safety”, an essential safety guide for children, parents and teachers. The handbook contains information on the harmful effects of the common dangers children are exposed to, such as bullying, drugs and alcohol abuse. The publication also includes comprehensive instructions on how to react in such harmful situations. With Mission support, a total of 138,000 copies were distributed to primary schools across the country. The handbook was translated into eight minority languages (Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Hungarian, Romanian, Ruthenian and Slovak) for schoolchildren of various ethnic communities in the country. The objective was to supply every fourth grade pupil in Serbia with a copy, which was achieved. The Head of Mission presented the handbook together with the Minister of Interior and the Assistant Minister of Education at an event organized on 12 February in a primary school in Vrčin. From 19 to 22 March and from 14 to 17 May, the Mission, together with the MoI, organized a series of communication skills training courses to assist Serbia in strengthening the trust between citizens and the police. Participants were uniformed police officers at operational and supervisory levels in Niš and Zlatibor. A total of 133 police officers3, 11 of whom were women, were taught about the advantage of adopting a preventive approach to policing, pursued for example by meeting and interacting with citizens during events such as public debates, school visits, visits by community groups to police stations, or public information campaigns. Throughout 2018, the Mission co-operated with the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, and the Ministry of Youth and Sports in the implementation of the project “Prevention of risky behaviour among children through sports and education”, also known as “To Success, Together!”. The project aims to create an environment that provides positive alternatives for school pupils to resist various pressures that can result in delinquency, violent extremism, drug abuse and peer violence. This project is an example of the crossdimensional/whole-government approach to security that the Mission applies in all its initiatives, in partnership with 3 The participating police officers were from Bor, Čačak, Kruševac, Kragujevac, Kraljevo, Leskovac, Niš, Novi Pazar, Pirot, Prijepolje, Prokuplje, Užice, Valjevo, Vranje and Zaječar. the counterparts. The following activities were implemented within that process: • On 5 May, together with the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, the Mission organized a friendly football tournament within the prevention project “To Success, Together!”. The friendly football tournament brought together some 140 children from Serbia and Israel4; • On 25 October, in Novi Sad, the Mission, together with the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Youth and Sports, and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, launched the second phase of the project “To Success, Together!”. The Head of Mission, the Mayor of Novi Sad, the Minister of Youth and Sports, the Assistant Minister of Education, Science and Technological Development, the State Secretary at the Ministry of Health, the Ambassador of Israel to Serbia, and the Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Italy to Serbia opened the launch event, organized as a school football tournament that gathered 150 children from six primary schools from across Serbia. In addition to the primary schools from Kragujevac, Niš, Novi Sad and Vrčin that participated in the piloting process, the second phase included two more schools from Novi Pazar and Leskovac; • From 26 to 28 November, the Mission, together with the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Youth and Sports, organized the first co-ordination meeting of all participants and the training of new volunteers engaged in the project. After the co-ordination meeting, during which participants exchanged good practices gained in the pilot phase and provided guidelines for upcoming project activities, expert lecturers from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development coached some ten new volunteers on how to organize workshops for primary school pupils; • On 20 December, the Mission, together with the MoI and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, launched a mobile application on “The Basics of Child Safety”. The event launching the application was organized in a primary school in Mladenovac and was attended by the Head of Mission and the Minister of Interior. The application was developed as a follow-up to the handbook “Basics of Child Safety” and is aimed to reach out to schoolchildren, teachers and parents using a modern, digital platform. It was designed to raise awareness of various child safety issues, from traffic safety 4 Twenty-two children from Israel, participating in a similar project called “The Equalizer”, travelled to Serbia for the occasion. 89