Policing Strategy, as well as 23,700 leaflets focusing on crime prevention, were also
produced by the Mission. These materials were provided in five languages, Albanian,
Serbian, Turkish, Roma and English, and are readily available externally in municipal and
public buildings and internally in all police stations.
Community Safety Awareness Programme (CSAP) 2014
In order to continue to support the implementation of the Kosovo Police Community Policing
Strategy and Action Plan 2012-2016, starting in March the Mission, jointly with the Kosovo
Police and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST), facilitated a
workshop, where the newly created working group comprising these institutions designed the
Community Safety Awareness Programme (CSAP) 2014. In line with its aim to address the
limitations of earlier awareness programmes for schoolchildren Kosovo-wide, the workshop
was used to identify and agree on the roles, responsibilities and obligations of the police and
MEST in the delivery of the CSAP 2014 and details of timelines involved throughout the
programme.
The Mission completed the facilitation of four training-of-trainers sessions on CSAP 2014 in
May and June for a mixed group of 90 selected trainers of the Kosovo Police, MEST, school
teachers and the municipal directors for education. During these four-day courses, the
participating trainers learned about drugs awareness, domestic violence, traffic awareness,
exploitation of children, internet safety and other topics that affect young people. These
trainers were then engaged in delivering the community safety programme in a pilot scheme,
which took place in all pre-university schools of one municipality from October to December
2014. In addition, the Mission also facilitated a workshop which provided 23 police regional
directors and heads of departments with the details and tasks of this programme, which also
aimed to co-ordinate their activities in implementing it on the departmental and regional level.
The programme, which envisions raising the community safety awareness among school
students, is expected to become part of the curriculum that will be used in all schools
throughout Kosovo, commencing from September 2015.
Upon completion of the programme delivery in the pilot municipality, the Mission supported a
joint workshop on 18 December with the representatives of the Kosovo Police, MEST,
Municipal Educational Directorate and school representatives to review and evaluate the
implementation of the CSAP 2014. The 36 participants attending the workshop mainly
discussed the content of this pilot programme for safety awareness in the schools, the
feedback from the trainers and students and areas for improvement. Overall, the pilot was
acknowledged as a success and it was agreed to proceed with its accreditation through
MEST. According to the data from Kosovo Police and MEST, between October and
December over 4050 school children participated in the programme. Further, the CSAP was
assessed as very successful from all involved stakeholders, including the schoolchildren.
Simultaneously, between 25 September and 19 November the Mission facilitated six one-day
regional workshops titled “working in partnership and problem solving” in its efforts to support
the Kosovo Police in implementing their Community Policing Strategy. These workshops
were carried out in each police region and were attended by senior officers, municipal
officials and members of the Local Public Safety Committees. In total, 141 participants took
part in these workshops, the aim of which was to act as both a forum for raising the local
awareness level and as a means to reinforce the concept of working in partnership to resolve
local problems.
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