POLICE-RELATED ACTIVITIES OF FIELD OPERATIONS SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE of emergency providers in different crisis situations. The exercise brought together representatives from the different emergency agencies and services and provided a platform for a better communication between these agencies. The workshop’s overall goal was to assist the MoI with increasing its professional capacity, focusing on explaining the critical incident concept to the police, including the establishment of a command and control structure, risk matrix, and the collection of data and information. Activities Related to Threats Posed by Criminal Activity Police officials visiting the Economics High School in Gostivar, which held a painting exhibition as part of the “Stop Hate Speech” project. Gostivar, North Macedonia, 26 December 2018 (OSCE/Jacek Michalkowski) Financial Investigations, Anti-Money Laundering and Seizures of Criminal Proceeds From 20 to 21 June, a two-day workshop on combating corruption was held in the MoI Training Centre in Idrizovo. The event was organized in co-operation with the MoI and the Italian Embassy in Skopje, with support from Italian law enforcement experts. Over 30 participants representing top and mid-level management of the main law enforcement institutions attended the event, including representatives of the Public Prosecutor’s Office. The workshop was very interactive, with several case studies being presented and discussed. Policy-making, legislation standards and investigation techniques were discussed, as was the situation regarding corruption in the country. On 28 and 29 November, the Mission organized a two-day workshop on the “Recovery and management of criminal assets”. The event was organized in co-operation with the Financial Police Office and the Project Team, “IPA/2017 ‒ Countering Serious Crime in the Western Balkans”, and was held in the newly inaugurated training facility within the Financial Police Office. The Mission contributed with a donation of equipment to the establishment of this training facility. The workshop involved three international experts on criminal asset recovery and management training the personnel of law enforcement institutions in the country, dealing with the confiscation and management of criminal assets. In total, 55 participants from the police, Financial Police Office, Customs and the Public Prosecution participated in the event. The goal of the workshop was for host country law enforcement counterparts to learn how to identify, track and seize potential criminal assets in ongoing criminal investigations, and how to manage them during an investigation and a court trial process. Counter-Terrorism & P/C VERLT On 13 and 14 February, the Mission, together with the British Embassy in Skopje, supported the National Co-ordinator and the Committee for CVE and Counter-terrorism in conducting two roundtable discussions in Skopje and Tetovo on the draft national strategies and action plans for CVE and counter-terrorism. The discussions aimed to facilitate public consultation and input by engaging civil society, municipal officials, local community actors, parents, teachers, youth, religious leaders and representatives from relevant ministries. The purpose of the discussions was to hear the voice of communities, identify local challenges, create links and communication between stakeholders, foster co-operation among institutions and civil society, and identify capacity and awareness gaps. The suggestions and information were used to inform the drafting of the Government’s revised strategies and action plans, under the National Committee for CVE and Counter-terrorism. On 24 April, the PDU, together with the MoI, the National Co-ordinator for CVE and Counter-Terrorism and his office, organized a roundtable discussion on P/C VERLT for trainers in Skopje. The purpose of the discussions was to exchange experiences and lessons learned, and identify what issues the trainers faced during the one day roll-out of the P/C VERLT training courses in the past years, but also to discuss how to proceed with the training delivery, methodology and evaluation process of the upcoming P/C VERLT training. The national P/C VERLT trainers will continue cascading the oneday training and provide prevention officers and inspectors from the Criminal Investigation Department with practical, user-friendly tools to support their daily work in detecting signs and indicators of violent radicalization at an early stage. The training on P/C VERLT is included in the Action Plan of the National Strategy on Countering Violent Extremism as a 101