In a joint effort with the Kosovo Police, from 5-12 May the Mission concluded the facilitation of four workshops to raise awareness of women and Serbian, Bosnian, Kosovo Roma, Kosovo Ashkali and Kosovo Egyptian communities to join the police structures. Eighty young people from 18 to 25 years of age (out of which 16 females and 12 males came from the Kosovo Roma, Kosovo Ashkali and Kosovo Egyptian communities underrepresented in the police) attended these workshops held in four municipalities. The workshops, which aimed to encourage the participants to join the police and contribute to security and safety throughout Kosovo, acquainted the participants with the institution’s application modalities and selection procedures, police legislation and key principles of democratic policing, community policing and police oversight. Striving to promote multi-ethnic police structures by stressing the importance of equal gender and community representation, which is also a priority of the Kosovo Police, the Mission will continue to facilitate such workshops in other municipalities. In its efforts to ensure closer relations and trust between all communities and the public safety agencies, on 14 and 15 June the Mission supported the annual Mini Olympics for People with Disabilities, organized by the Parents Organization of Children with Disabilities and the Kosovo Pre-Olympics Committee at the Academy. Around 500 people with disabilities and their family members from different communities participated in different sporting activities held during this event, which aims to promote better integration of people with disabilities in society and to increase their co-operation with public safety providers. The event was also attended by representatives of the Pre-Olympic Committee of Albania and other national and international institutions and organizations. From 8-12 December, the Mission organized a study visit for delegates of the Kosovo Police and the Academy to the German Police University in Muenster, Germany. The aim of this activity was to collect first-hand information on post-academic senior police educational programmes and ranking systems, as well as to provide the senior officials of the Kosovo Police and the Academy with a model on how to set up and develop master degree programmes on security sciences compatible with European Union standards applied in high-level education curricula, including research and development. During this four-day visit, the study group obtained first-hand information from the university academics on senior police education and leadership system, quality assurance and didactics, accreditation and related standards of the Bologna process, practical and research-oriented curricula development and budgeting. In accordance with its aim to further support the development of higher education in the Academy, the possibilities of exchanging lecturers and mobility of students and other areas of potential future co-operation were also looked into. Public Safety Awareness In support of its guiding principle that public confidence is a key element to ensure a transparent security sector, the Mission’s Public Safety Awareness component continued its activities to increase awareness raising and enhance co-operation between the police and the people in Kosovo. During the reporting period, the Mission, in co-operation with the Kosovo Police, organized several training courses, workshops, conferences and public awareness-raising activities, which helped reach the set objectives. In addition, in accordance with the Community Strategy and Action Plan 2012-2016, the process of establishing a “police corner” in a friendly environment within the premises of the Kosovo Police, has started with the Mission’s support. Given that police, the media and the public all benefit from trainings in media relation and other awareness-raising activities, the Mission assessed the impact of its previously conducted activities in order to plan future ones. From the evaluation of the trainings and workshops done by the Kosovo Police and the Agency for Emergency Management, activities delivered by the Mission had a direct impact on the performance of public safety institutions, which translates into a better communication with the public. Police officers trained to communicate with the media and the public understand the importance of 78