Development Programme (UNDP), the EU Rule of Law Mission (EULEX), the UN Refugee
Agency (UNHCR) and the UNDPKO, as well as by German and Swedish police experts.
From 21-23 October 2014, TNTD/SPMU participated in the UN Thematic Meeting on Police
Command dedicated to the Strategic Guidance Framework for International Police
Peacekeeping in Pretoria, South Africa. The meeting was designed to “kick start” the drafting
of the UN Guidelines on Police Command in Peacekeeping and was co-organized by
UNDPKO, the Swedish National Police and the South-African Institute for Security Studies.
The event formed part of a process launched in 2011 by UNDPKO in the wake of a 2008
report from the UN’s Internal Oversight Services. The aim is the development of a Strategic
Guidance Framework (SGF) for police peacekeeping operations. The SGF intends to target
four domains: Command, Operations, Administration, and Capacities Building and
Development. For each domain, a set of thematic meetings has been arranged in order to
exchange and share opinions and practices developed in UN Member States and by other
international organizations such as the African Union, the EU and the OSCE. TNTD/SPMU
was one of two presenters of Session 3 dedicated to “International Dimensions of
Command”.
Organized Crime in General
On 5 February 2014, TNTD/SPMU attended the annual meeting of UNODC regional law
enforcement advisors, programme managers and related international partners in Vienna.
The focus of this meeting was to explore synergies needed to enable UNODC to effectively
deliver its technical assistance programme to its Member States. TNTD/SPMU was invited to
contribute to identify how to better develop the partnership between OSCE and UNODC to
deliver the best possible results, and how the two organizations can work together in
programme implementation to increase uniformity in standards and practices.
From 6-10 October 2014, TNTD/SPMU represented the OSCE as an observer in the seventh
session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) in Vienna. The conference covered “Review of the
implementation of the UNTOC and the Protocols thereto”; “Other serious crimes, as defined
in the Convention, including new forms and dimensions of transnational organized crime”;
“International co-operation, with particular emphasis on extradition, mutual legal assistance
and international co-operation for the purpose of confiscation”; “Establishment and
strengthening of central authorities”; and “Technical assistance”.
From 9-11 December 2014, TNTD/SPMU attended a second meeting in the framework of
UNODC’s initiative of “Establishing/Reinforcing the Network of Prosecutors and Central
Authorities from Source, Transit and Destination Countries in response to Transnational
Organized Crime in Central Asia and Southern Caucasus”. This meeting, held in Tbilisi,
Georgia, was aimed at facilitating co-operation in transnational organized crime
investigations that require obtaining digital evidence from foreign jurisdictions. The meeting
brought together some 40 representatives of central authorities for Mutual Legal Assistance
as well as senior prosecutors and law enforcement officers authorized to investigate or
supervise investigations of transnational organized crimes from Armenia, Azerbaijan, France,
Georgia, Germany, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Netherlands, Norway, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, as well as from
Eurojust and UNODC. TNTD/SPMU contributed to this meeting by presenting on the OSCE’s
activities related to cybercrime.
Illicit Drugs and Chemical Precursors
On 18-19 February 2014, TNTD/SPMU participated in the Paris Pact Expert Working Group
on Improving Bilateral and Multilateral Information Sharing and Co-ordination of
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