EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This is the ninth report submitted in accordance with Decision 9, paragraph 6, of the Bucharest Ministerial Council Meeting, 4 December 2001. It provides information about the activities of the OSCE Strategic Police Matters Unit, as well as other cross-dimensional police-related activities of other thematic units in the Secretariat and OSCE Institutions. Furthermore, the report gives an overview of the capacity- and institution-building activities undertaken by the OSCE field operations in support of their respective host-State governments. The topics that continued to dominate OSCE’s policing agenda in 2010 were the fight against transnational crime and terrorism and the promotion of the principles of democratic policing. OSCE police reform assistance programmes continued to focus mainly on providing assistance in strategic planning and the development of modern human resource management, developing and conducting basic and advanced police training; promoting human rights, particularly in the context of investigations, detentions and public order management; promoting police-public partnership; and enhancing regional law enforcement co-operation, particularly in the fight against trafficking in human beings and drug trafficking. Activities of the SPMU In 2010, the SPMU continued providing police-related support to the OSCE Secretary General and the OSCE Chairman-in-Office. The unit also responded to participating States’ requests for assistance in police reforms and supported the OSCE field operations in the implementation of their mandates. Support of the field operations included, inter alia, assistance in screening and selecting new personnel, along with the provision of advice on the formulation and implementation of new projects. Particular efforts were devoted in this regard to the deployment of an OSCE police monitoring and advisory component to Kyrgyzstan in response to a violent inter-ethnic crisis in the southern region of Kyrgyzstan in June 2010. In response to Permanent Council Decision 914 of 6 December 2009, the SPMU assisted the Secretary General with the preparation of his Report on Police-Related Activities of the OSCE Executive Structures up to the End of 2009.1 The report analyzed and assessed OSCE police-related activities of the previous ten years and provided forward-looking perspectives and strategic recommendations for OSCE policing. The findings of the report were further discussed at the Annual Police Experts Meeting (APEM) in May 2010 as well as at the 2010 Annual Security Review Conference. Based on these findings, the SPMU, by the end of 2010, prepared a “food for thought paper” on The Role of the SPMU and OSCE Police-Related Activities, which served as a basis for the OSCE Strategic Framework for Police-Related Activities, which the participating States envisaged to adopt in 2011. The SPMU’s efforts in developing baseline police capacities of participating States and its support to policy development was underpinned by the publication of an English and Russian version of a manual on Police and Roma and Sinti: Good Practices in Building Trust and Understanding,2 a project that was undertaken in close co-operation with the ODIHR Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues. The Unit also embarked on developing a manual on identifying victims of trafficking in human beings in the context of community policing. 1 2 See OSCE, Report by the OSCE Secretary General on Police-Related Activities of the OSCE Executive Structures up to the End of 2009, Vienna, 1 April 2010, at: http://polis.osce.org/library/f/3681/2981/OSCE-AUS-RPT-3681-ENReport%20on%20policerelated%20activities%20of%20OSCE%20executive%20structures%20up%20to%20the%20end%20of%202009.pdf. at: http://polis.osce.org/library/f/3682/2891/OSCE-AUS-RPT-3682-ENPolice%20and%20Roma%20and%20Sinti_%20Good%20Practices%20in%20Building%20Trust%20and%20Understan ding.pdf 9