year. The Cybercrime Unit still needs support in further enhancing the capacities of its investigators, in part due to the fact that they do not share the same level of skills. They are also in need of on-the-job training to gain practical investigation skills. The Kosovo Agency on Forensic, in particular the IT Department, continued to receive assistance and training support to further develop its operational capacities. It has been observed by the Mission that the IT Department of the Agency not only needs further training support in the area of digital forensics, but it also lacks technological equipment needed to perform its duties. Currently, the Mission is in a process of an extrabudgetary project to support the Agency to fulfil some of the identified needs of the IT Department, especially in the area of audio and voice analysis. There has also been a lack of governmental funds to enlarge and improve the premises of the IT Department, which currently operates in a very limited and inadequate working space, despite the fact that the statistics from both 2013 and 2014 indicate an increase in demand for its services by both the judiciary and police. From 5-9 May, the Mission, in co-operation with Turkish National Police, organized an onthe-job training for four forensic and police officers on network forensics in Ankara, Turkey. This training addressed topics such as cryptography and network security; identification, preservation and analysis of evidence of attacks; internet addressing and inter-domain routing; IP prefix hijacking detection and IP trace back. Particular focus was given to report writing on examinations performed and to presentations on the court proceedings. From 29 September to 3 October, the Mission delivered cybercrime training to ten officers of the Kosovo Police and Kosovo Agency on Forensic. The training was organized to enhance their capacities in combating cybercrimes, with a focus on techniques of encryption, decryption, cryptography and crypto-analysis. The course equipped the participants with knowledge and skills used to tackle organized crime and terrorism, as well as with methods on how to decode messages to prevent terrorist attacks and dismantle terrorist organizations and organized crime networks. From 20-24 October, ten experienced members of the Kosovo Police attended a five-day training course for first responders to cybercrime delivered by the Mission at the computer laboratory of the Kosovo Academy for Public Safety. The training focused on how to properly respond to and handle the scene involving computers and other technological items, as well as on the practical aspect of identification, seizure and transport of gathered evidence stored on electronic media to the forensic agency for further detailed analysis. This training is expected to assist the police in combating organized crime, including Internet/child pornography, human trafficking, commercial sex detection and bank fraud and to contribute to improving the co-operation between the police and forensic agencies in integrated practices of handling electronic evidence. Financial Investigations/Money-Laundering In 2013, Kosovo improved its legislative framework by adopting the implementing legislation on money laundering. Although the investigative capacity of the police is generally good, Kosovo is still at the early stages of delivering outcomes in the effort to fight organized crime, which continues to be a serious challenge. The main area of concern is around the judicial aspects. The total volume of indictments and judgments in cases of trafficking in narcotics and trafficking in human beings remains low. Law enforcement agencies have been reluctant to initiate financial investigations, and as a result the number of confiscations and sequestrations ordered by the judiciary and executed by the police continues to be low. A major aspect of this is a lack of expertise among prosecutors and judges in specialist areas such as financial crime and procurement fraud. 65