4.3 Mission in Kosovo With gender equality placed high on training on operational command services by enabling them to share its agenda, the Mission continuously duties for 13 senior KP women expertise, strengthen the role and contributes to the advancement officers at the SWP in Cardiff, United contribution of women, and advance of the role of women in the police Kingdom. This five-day practical their management and leadership services, by providing capacity- training provided the policewomen skills by developing and employing building, strategic and advisory with an opportunity to learn about a mentoring system as a means support. In this context, the Mission the principles of decision-making to supporting women officers’ completed the facilitation of a three- models for operational commanders’ career and personal development. module training course in 2018, duties and how strategic operational Furthermore, the protocol is which aimed to empower police and tactical command decisions are expected to yield successes in women by developing their skills taken. Participants were mentored co-operation between these police and competence for management by SWP senior policewomen and services in community policing and and leadership positions. spread into different police districts the fight against transnational crime, across Wales, which enabled them such as terrorism, drugs trafficking, to network and ensure sharing illegal migration and trafficking in of knowledge, successes and human beings. In July 2016, the Mission, in co-ordination with the KP and AWKP, facilitated a workshop for 30 ranked women police officers in Prishtinë/Priština, in order to training. further assist them in developing Following this, the international their management skills and practices acquired during the competencies. The workshop was training programme helped three tailored to identify and develop policewomen from this group to be approaches in dealing with issues promoted in 2018 from lieutenant to and challenges that are most captain, and another one to a senior common to women leaders in law management position. Another two enforcement. captains have passed the necessary Further to this, in March 2018, the Mission delivered an operational commanders training course to 13 supervising police women of this exams and are on the waiting list for a promotion as soon as positions become available within the organizational structure. target group, which further focused Finally, as a result of this on the importance of women in programme, during which a close operational commanders’ positions, collaboration was developed addressing potential prejudices, between the KP, IAWP, Force perceptions and intolerance International, and the Gender toward women in command, and Equality Network in SWP, the the exploration of techniques to Mission facilitated on 6 December overcome barriers during daily work. the signing of the official Lastly, in May 2018, the Mission finalized the delivery of a training package on management and leadership through on-the-job 78 challenges, continued also after the co-operation protocol between the KP and the SWP. This protocol aims to further strengthen the co-operation between these police