4.15 The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan Background Since 2007 the PCUz has been providing assistance to the Police Academy under the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Within this ongoing project focusing on co-operation in improving training and exchanging experience, special attention is paid to retraining and the professional development of specialists in enhancing public security, crime prevention, and major issues such as terrorism, extremism, drug trafficking, and human trafficking. Facilitating Exchange of Experience and Learning from Good Policing Practices On 20-21 May, the PCUz, in close co-operation with the ATU and the SPMU, organized a Training of Trainers on Police Staff Training in Counter Terrorism. The training was conducted by highly qualified experts from Interpol and the MoI of Spain. Some 20 participants discussed topics related to the international legal framework and co-operation in the field of terrorism prevention and its implementation at the national level, the organization of professional police training in the field of counter-terrorism as well as methods and forms of organizing counter-terrorism police training courses. From 31 May - 2 June, the PCUz supported the organization of a training-of-trainers seminar on “Management Staff Training for Police”. The training was carried out by an expert from the National Police Force of Ireland and allowed the instructors of the Academy to learn from current practice of management staff training in the Irish Police. Discussions focused on issues such as the formation of management and senior management reserves; the recruitment system; procedures of assignment; opportunities in management careers, forms and methods of manager training in various structural divisions and departments of the police; as well as the organization and content of management staff training in major police activity directions. From 2-4 November, the PCUz, with the help of representatives from the Austrian Federal MoI, organized a training on the “Use of New Criminalistic Methods in Crime Investigation” for 20 law enforcement officers. Participants were able to increase their knowledge in methods and techniques in crime scene examinations and specific topics related to criminalistic methods in crime investigations. Helping to Integrate the Uzbek Police into the International Police Community From 11-22 November, the PCUz also organized a study visit of a delegation of the Police Academy to France and the United Kingdom. One of the tasks of the Police academy Assistance Project has been to help Uzbek police become familiar with good police training practices in the OSCE region and to promote their integration into the international police community. In each country, the delegation was received by the officials of the respective police training institutions to exchange experience in the field of developing and co-ordinating police training systems. As a result it was preliminarily agreed to organize follow-up visits of experts from France and the UK to the Uzbek Police Academy to provide specific training courses. Promoting Human Rights Standards among Police In 2008, the PCUz had launched a project to help build the capacity of the newly established Human Rights Protection and Legal Provision Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. 108