and representatives from the Prosecutor General’s Office, Interior Ministry’s Police Academy and the Central Asian Regional Information and Coordination Centre for Combating Illicit Trafficking of Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and their Precursors (CARICC), learned about investigation and prosecution. Law enforcement experts from Georgia and Lithuania shared their countries’ experience in controlled delivery and purchase activities. From 2-4 April in Almaty, the Centre, in co-operation with EU-UNDP Border Management Programme in Central Asia and the U.S. Embassy, organized a three-day training seminar on best practices in countering drug trafficking. Some 40 participants from law enforcement agencies, the Border Service and Customs Control Committee regional units learned from Canadian, Georgian and Latvian experts about best practices in operational activities when detecting drug-related crimes and examined cases of using controlled deliveries and working through undercover agents. From 21-24 April, the Centre, in co-operation with the US Embassy and the Institute of the Prosecutor General’s Office, organized a training seminar on prosecutorial supervision of cases related to the trafficking of drugs. Some 40 prosecutors, police officers and representatives of national security services learned how to supervise the implementation of laws and legal acts concerning anti-drug authorities (public health agencies, enterprises and other organizations), compliance with the law on the prevention of drug use among minors, and prosecutorial oversight of law enforcement bodies engaged in operative investigation activities in the fight against drug trafficking. Participants also learned about the observance of laws against drug abuse in detention centres and disciplinary institutions. From 3-6 November, the Centre, in co-operation with the State Revenues Committee of the Finance Ministry and the US Embassy in Kazakhstan, organized a four-day regional seminar in Karaganda on the detection of trafficking routes for illegal drugs and their precursors, including methods for detecting relevant contraband. Some 60 officers from across the country representing the State Revenues Committee, the Interior Ministry, the Prosecutor General’s Office and the National Security Committee, as well as high-level officials from anti-drug trafficking services of Azerbaijan, Belarus, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, attended the seminar. Participants learned from international experts from Georgia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, the United States and INTERPOL about best international practices in identifying and precluding international routes for drugs and their precursors, types of precursors used to produce illicit drugs, successful examples of using controlled deliveries and techniques to detect drug traffickers, as well as the work of INTERPOL in combating drug trafficking. Cybercrime From 17-19 April, the Centre supported a training seminar on countering cybercrime in Kazakhstan with a focus on detecting, preventing and disclosing cybercrime, countering fraud in electronic banking and computer forensics. The three-day event, co-organized with the Institute of the Prosecutor General’s Office, brought together some 40 prosecutors from across the country and aimed at enhancing their capacity to prosecute cases of cybercrime. National and international experts informed participants about the best practices and techniques related to cybercrime investigation and prosecution, anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism. Gender/Domestic Violence From 27 March to 6 June, the Centre, in co-operation with the Interior Ministry, held a series of five two-day training seminars for police inspectors and officers on domestic violence prevention and response. The trainings aimed to increase the capacity of the police inspectors in charge of women’s protection against violence by enhancing their knowledge of 134