and reform, Azerbaijan, with a much smaller number of total activities, had only one such
activity. Whereas the Project Co-ordinator in Baku was not involved in community policing,
community policing accounted for the majority of activities from the Office in Yerevan.
Furthermore, the Office in Yerevan devoted significant attention to addressing domestic
violence and to the modernization of the police educational system. The fight against
cybercrime and THB were topics of interest in both field operations.
In Central Asia, the fight against transnational threats accounted for half of all activities, the
highest proportion of any region, with some field operations focused almost entirely on
transnational threats and border issues. Community policing was the most prominent activity
in Kyrgyzstan, both within and outside the framework of the Community Security Initiative
(CSI). Border security and management represented a large portion of total activities,
especially in Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. The fight against illicit drugs and THB also
continued to receive significant attention by the field operations, as did cybercrime. All but
one field operation provided support in counter-terrorism, and three provided support in travel
document security.
Co-operation with International, Regional and National Partner Organizations
Close consultation, co-ordination and co-operation of the OSCE executive structures with
other international stakeholders involved in police assistance in the OSCE participating
States is crucial in order to develop coherent, holistic and complementary reform goals and
strategies, deliver coherent and joint statements of goals and expectations to the national
counterparts, build synergies, delegate and divide tasks, and avoid duplication of activities. In
2014, the OSCE executive structures, on the basis of the Platform for Co-operative Security
of 1999, continued to co-operate with the United Nations, its structures, and other relevant
international and regional organizations on police-related activities.
In the field of general police development and reform, major international, regional and
national partner organizations included, among many others, the Council of Europe (CoE);
the European Union and numerous EU institutions, in particular Europol; the Geneva Centre
for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF); the International Criminal Police
Organisation (INTERPOL); IOM; the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and many
other bodies of the United Nations; and the United States International Criminal Investigative
Training Assistance Program (ICITAP).
The preparation and implementation of activities related to transnational threats, including
organized crime, terrorism, trafficking in drugs, THB and cybercrime, entailed co-ordination
and co-operation with various international, regional and national partner organizations,
including, among many others, the Central Asian Regional Information and Coordination
Centre (CARICC); DCAF; the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and
Financing of Terrorism (EAG); many EU institutions; the Financial Action Task Force (FATF);
the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF); IOM; the International Civil Aviation
Organization (ICAO); INTERPOL; UNODC and many other UN bodes; and the United States
Agency for International Development (USAID).
Finally, it is worth mentioning the close and trusting collaboration with the hosting authorities
in the OSCE participating States and with numerous implementing partners from civil society.
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