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The Mission enabled the participation of two senior Kosovo Police experts and
policymakers in the “Advancing Women’s Roles in Countering Violent Extremism and
Radicalization that Lead to Terrorism (VERLT)” workshop, organized by the Global
Counter Terrorism Forum and the Transnational Threats Department of the OSCE
Secretariat on 21 and 22 October in Vienna.
Community Safety Development
The Mission continued its commitment to support the implementation of the Kosovo
Community Safety and Community Policing Strategies in order to contribute to the
development of an effective and sustainable multi-level community safety and security
infrastructure in Kosovo for improving the overall safety, security and quality of life
throughout Kosovo.
Community Policing
In 2014, the Mission supported the Kosovo Police with facilitation of two workshops for
reviewing the Community Policing Strategy and Action Plan 2012-2016, which took place on
3 July and 9 December, respectively. The workshops focused on the biannual review of the
implementation of the Strategy, providing all actors dealing with community policing with a
detailed progress review of the Strategy. Both workshops hosted senior police officers with
responsibility in implementing the Strategy alongside the representatives of the Mission,
EULEX, ICITAP and local NGOs, where the members of various Kosovo Police pillars
reported on the implementation of the Strategy in their respective departments. The findings
of these review workshops will form the basis for drafting the assessment report about the
current level of the Strategy implementation, which will provide an overview of the progress
and the shortcomings to be addressed to improve the implementation process in the future.
On 29 September, the Mission facilitated a half-day seminar on community safety
infrastructure for 16 Kosovo Police senior operational managers of the Regional Directorate
Mitrovica/Mitrovicë North. In line with the Community Policing Strategy and Action Plan 20122016 of the Kosovo Police, the seminar was aimed at providing the regional supervisors,
station commanders and middle management with a general overview of the community
safety legislation in Kosovo, community safety forums and the requirements and benefits of
the successful delivery of community-oriented policing.
On 26 November, the Mission facilitated a one-day workshop on Community Policing
Strategy and Action Plan 2012-2016 for 19 operational supervisors of the Kosovo Police
Regional Directorate Mitrovica/Mitrovicë North. The aim of the workshop was to support the
Kosovo Police in the implementation of their Community Policing Strategy by the
establishment of the Community Safety Awareness Programme 2014. In line with its
objective, the workshop served as both a forum for raising local awareness level of the
Programme and as a tool to reinforce the concept of solving problems through working in
partnership. In addition, it covered the establishment of the community policing, embedding
the intelligence-led policing and community-oriented policing models.
In December, the Mission completed a community safety awareness-raising campaign
designed to improve the Kosovo Police and communities’ awareness of the Community
Policing Strategy and Action Plan 2012-2016. The last activity consisted of handing over nine
public information boards to Kosovo Police that are sited outside police headquarters and
eight police regional directorates. The purpose of these information boards, which will serve
as information hubs and can be easily viewed by the public at key locations across Kosovo,
is to be a place for all public information relating to policing and community safety activities,
such as leaflets, posters and other publications. Moreover, as part of this campaign, earlier in
the year 100 pull-up screens and 6000 B2-size full colour posters to promote the Community
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