Development Programme (UNDP), the EU Rule of Law Mission (EULEX), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the UNDPKO, as well as by German and Swedish police experts. From 21-23 October 2014, TNTD/SPMU participated in the UN Thematic Meeting on Police Command dedicated to the Strategic Guidance Framework for International Police Peacekeeping in Pretoria, South Africa. The meeting was designed to “kick start” the drafting of the UN Guidelines on Police Command in Peacekeeping and was co-organized by UNDPKO, the Swedish National Police and the South-African Institute for Security Studies. The event formed part of a process launched in 2011 by UNDPKO in the wake of a 2008 report from the UN’s Internal Oversight Services. The aim is the development of a Strategic Guidance Framework (SGF) for police peacekeeping operations. The SGF intends to target four domains: Command, Operations, Administration, and Capacities Building and Development. For each domain, a set of thematic meetings has been arranged in order to exchange and share opinions and practices developed in UN Member States and by other international organizations such as the African Union, the EU and the OSCE. TNTD/SPMU was one of two presenters of Session 3 dedicated to “International Dimensions of Command”. Organized Crime in General On 5 February 2014, TNTD/SPMU attended the annual meeting of UNODC regional law enforcement advisors, programme managers and related international partners in Vienna. The focus of this meeting was to explore synergies needed to enable UNODC to effectively deliver its technical assistance programme to its Member States. TNTD/SPMU was invited to contribute to identify how to better develop the partnership between OSCE and UNODC to deliver the best possible results, and how the two organizations can work together in programme implementation to increase uniformity in standards and practices. From 6-10 October 2014, TNTD/SPMU represented the OSCE as an observer in the seventh session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) in Vienna. The conference covered “Review of the implementation of the UNTOC and the Protocols thereto”; “Other serious crimes, as defined in the Convention, including new forms and dimensions of transnational organized crime”; “International co-operation, with particular emphasis on extradition, mutual legal assistance and international co-operation for the purpose of confiscation”; “Establishment and strengthening of central authorities”; and “Technical assistance”. From 9-11 December 2014, TNTD/SPMU attended a second meeting in the framework of UNODC’s initiative of “Establishing/Reinforcing the Network of Prosecutors and Central Authorities from Source, Transit and Destination Countries in response to Transnational Organized Crime in Central Asia and Southern Caucasus”. This meeting, held in Tbilisi, Georgia, was aimed at facilitating co-operation in transnational organized crime investigations that require obtaining digital evidence from foreign jurisdictions. The meeting brought together some 40 representatives of central authorities for Mutual Legal Assistance as well as senior prosecutors and law enforcement officers authorized to investigate or supervise investigations of transnational organized crimes from Armenia, Azerbaijan, France, Georgia, Germany, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Netherlands, Norway, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, as well as from Eurojust and UNODC. TNTD/SPMU contributed to this meeting by presenting on the OSCE’s activities related to cybercrime. Illicit Drugs and Chemical Precursors On 18-19 February 2014, TNTD/SPMU participated in the Paris Pact Expert Working Group on Improving Bilateral and Multilateral Information Sharing and Co-ordination of 30

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