Community Policing Between March and April, the Office, jointly with the Centre for Excellence in Negotiation, organized a series of trainings for community policing officers. The training aimed at improving their negotiation and communication skills. Approximately 140 officers participated in the trainings. On 30 June, the Office, together with the Armenian Police, awarded certificates to a group of 138 community police officers from eight police districts of Yerevan who completed the above-mentioned trainings on negotiation and communication skills. Experts from a local NGO involved in the project presented a booklet on communication and negotiation practices, which was developed and published with the support of the Office. Between the 28 April and 26 June, a nine-week programme of community policing trainings, presentations and awareness seminars took place across nine Armenian provinces. In total, 768 persons participated, comprising nine Heads of Marz Department of Police, 21 Deputy Heads for Service, Heads of Operative Activity and Heads of Intelligence, 144 police managers and supervisors, 384 community police officers, six Marz Mayors, four Deputy Mayors, two Heads of Marz Administration and 199 town and village mayors. In addition, assessments were made of 20 community policing contact points and outreach was conducted to 16 contact points and four outreach stations. In addition, the Office donated 13 printers and 37 computers to police departments, within this same framework of activities devoted to the promotion of community policing in Armenian provinces. During the period of March to November, the Office, jointly with the police and National Centre for Legal Researches, initiated and implemented a pilot project aimed at supporting police officers in setting up Citizen Advisory Groups. The project was implemented in the three cities of Hrazdan, Charentsavan and Yeghvard in Kotayk region. Thirty-six community police officers were trained, three Citizen Advisory Groups were formed and a number of meetings were organized with the citizens to raise their awareness on community policing. In total, approximately 320 citizens participated in various meetings. The main events were round-table discussions with mayors and members of Charentsavan and Yeghvard councils; two meetings with the participation of 19 representatives of the condominiums; two meetings with the participation of 24 representatives of NGOs and mass media, a meeting with 20 representatives of Charentsavan youth; 12 meetings in local schools and colleges; five sports games with participation of police officers and schoolchildren, and two lectures on legal and psychological issues in schools. Domestic Violence From March to November, the Office supported the NGO Social Justice in the implementation of a project aimed at developing and promoting a partnership model between the police and its stakeholders for effective prevention of and response to domestic violence. The project was piloted in Kanaker-Zeitun, Avan and Nor Nork communities of Yerevan and in the town of Vanadzor, Lori province. It centred upon a joint multiagency mechanism to address domestic violence cases. Over 70 meetings and workshops for the police and main partners were organized in the pilot districts. Over 40 police officers and 20 state and nonstate organizations participated in the events. Concurrent with the meetings, the Office organized extensive discussions and round tables with participation of all stakeholders involved in the field of domestic violence matters, most notably the following: • In April and August, the Office organized two round tables on combating domestic violence, one in Yerevan and one in the Lori region. The events were aimed at raising awareness among police officers on domestic violence issues, specifically those from 127