4.5 Mission to Serbia Cybercrime In 2018, to ensure complementarity of efforts, the Security Co-operation Department developed co-operation with other international organizations, such as UNODC and the South Eastern and Eastern Europe Clearinghouse for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (UNDP/SEESAC). Aiming to strengthen civil society’s role in the security sector reform (SSR), the Mission also continued its co-operation with relevant CSOs (e.g., the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP), the Centre for Positive Youth Development, the Centre for Reintegration and Activism Belgrade, the APEL, and Impuls). In line with the host country’s policy priorities, the Mission also continued to facilitate the co-operation of Serbia’s police with the MoI of the Russian Federation, i.e., its Institute for Professional Development based in Domodedovo, Moscow, and the Voronezh Institute of High Technologies, in the area of threats to information security in operational systems and of countering online drug trafficking. In 2018, the Mission completed the OSCE regional project “Capacity Building for Criminal Justice Practitioners Combating Cybercrime and Cyber-enabled Crime in SouthEastern Europe”, implemented since 2017. From January to April, the Mission supported six regional ToT courses for police investigators, to set up a mobile team of trainers, which will train frontline police officers on cybercrime and cyber forensics. On 6 and 7 November, the Mission, together with the Service for Combatting Organized Crime of the Serbian MoI, organized the first of four two-day training courses on the collection and documentation of information on the internet. Sixteen participants were given an opportunity to learn more about conducting research and collecting and documenting information from open source databases on the internet and social media. Furthermore, the Mission donated ICT equipment to be used in conducting three other training seminars in Kragujevac, Niš and Novi Sad. The capacitybuilding effort will result in a countrywide network of 60 cyber-forensics investigators across the country by April 2019. From 12 to 16 November, the Mission, in partnership with the MoI of the Russian Federation, held a five-day intensive training for officials of the Serbian MoI on threats to information security in operational systems. Eight representatives of the MoI attended the training seminar at the Voronezh Institute of High Technologies. The training was tailored to the needs of the Serbian police and was intended to increase their knowledge, practical skills and abilities to effectively carry out investigations and operational duties. 94 From 6 to 7 December, the Mission supported the organization of the Co-ordination Board Meeting within the regional OSCE TNTD/SPMU project on “Capacity Building for Criminal Justice Practitioners Combating Cybercrime and Cyber-enabled Crime in South-Eastern Europe”. Following the first round of local training courses, which took place in November, this meeting was attended by all members of the Co-ordination Board and the national trainers from the SEE field operations’ host authorities, representatives from the State, education institutions and relevant experts. There were 28 participants. Border Security and Management / Customs From 29 October to 2 November, the Mission, together with the MoI and the TNTD/BSMU, supported the organization of a “Training course in the detection of forged documents and imposters”. A one-week training course for 15 border police officers took place at the Academy of Criminalistics and Police Studies in Zemun. The course helped increase the officers’ knowledge about forged and fraudulent documents as well as the detection of impostors. The training offered them an opportunity to acquire skills regarding the latest trends in counterfeiting, the methodologies of identifying forgeries, the manufacturing process of forged travel documents, and the use of various papers and polymers to ensure document security and profiling techniques. On this occasion, the OSCE’s TNTD/BSMU donated 15 magnifying lenses as necessary equipment to be used for passport control. The training event was conducted by two document experts from the Serbian MoI, who had been previously certified by Frontex. Other On 18 April, the Head of Mission attended a Local Coordination Group Meeting formed under the Franco-German Initiative on comprehensive control of SALW and combating illicit firearms trafficking in the Western Balkans. The meeting was part of the co-ordinated action to tackle SALW issues in the countries of the region, with the aim of facilitating the Roadmap and National Action Plan Process on curbing illicit firearms trafficking and comprehensive SALW control in the Western Balkans. At the meeting, Serbia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Interior presented their country’s efforts and results in this field. From April to December, the Mission, together with its implementing partner, the BCSP, implemented the project, “Support to civil society networks to monitor security sector reform”, through which the Mission supported the BCSP’s efforts to co-ordinate 14 SCOs within the relevant civil society network mechanism. The Mission supported the civil society network’s efforts to contribute to and monitor on-