4.1 Presence in Albania On 18 and 19 December, the Presence facilitated the participation of seven Albanian experts and practitioners at a ToT course in Vienna aimed at strengthening Albania’s capacity to disrupt the financing of terrorist networks. Participants included members of the General Directorate for the Prevention of Money Laundering, the Counterterrorism Directorate of the State Police, the Counter Intelligence Analytical Directorate and the Training Centre of the State Intelligence Service (SHISH), as well as the Prosecutor’s Office for Serious Crimes. The course was organized by the TNTD and UNODC/GPML and was the first of a series of progressively advanced training courses on countering the financing of terrorism. Participants were acquainted with complex analytical and operational planning methods through a training process that focused on localized scenarios based on real life cases. They learned how inter-agency cooperation can contribute to disrupting terrorist financial networks and strengthen their skills in the use of instruments and techniques for countering terrorist financing. Trafficking in Human Beings & Migration-related Crime In December, the Presence, in co-operation with the ASP Department of BMP, organized one-day training sessions on irregular migration in Gjirokastra, Korça and Shkodra. The trainees, 30 migration specialists from the regional border and migration directorates, were familiarized with recent trends of migration flows, profiling and identification of FTFs among migrants, and pre-screening procedures. Cybercrime As part of a larger OSCE regional capacity-building project for SEE's criminal justice institutions, addressing various thematic aspects of combating cybercrime and cyber-enabled crime, a series of six regional training activities were carried out. Four Albanian trainers, who passed all six regional training courses, conducted a first round of training activities from 8 to 12 October in the ASP Security Academy. Sixteen trainees from different police structures, such as those sectors fighting against narcotics, trafficking, money laundering, corruption, crimes committed against persons, property and domestic violence, were trained on Live Data Forensic and Open Source Investigations. Presence in Albania – Police-Related Activities in 2018 7 14 Training Total 46 25 Information Exchange / Institution and Capacity-Building Analysis of Lessons Learned, Assessments and Guidelines ACTIVITIES ON: General Police Development and Reform 22% Threats posed by Criminal Activity 78% 48

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