In 2010, the Project co-ordinator commenced to implement its third phase, which focussed on the following objectives: • • • • further raise the qualification and develop the skills of the personnel of the Department and its territorial subdivisions as well as regional internal affairs departments; render support in the Department’s awareness raising activities; continue support to the activity of the Resource Centre under the Department; facilitate the study of international best practices in ensuring and protection of human rights by the law-enforcement agencies of foreign countries. From 13-15 December, the PCUz held a training course on methods and instruments of monitoring the observance of and ensuring the human rights by internal affairs bodies. The target group consisted of the personnel of the Department for Human Rights Protection and Legal Provision of the MIA and its subdivisions in the Ministry of Interior of Karakalpakstan, the Regional Departments of Internal Affairs, the Main Department of Execution of Punishments, and the Department of Transport. Two trainers from the Polish Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights were invited as foreign experts. On 27-28 December, the PCUz, jointly with the Police Academy, conducted training on international human rights standards for law enforcement. The training was organized for 50 police officers working in the crime prevention units at the level of local neighbourhoods (makhalla) and for investigators from all the regions who were attending the in-service retraining course at the Police Academy. This training was convened within the project “Building the Capacity of the Chair of Human Rights Theory and Practice”. In 2010, the PCUz started the implementation of a two year project on building the capacity of the Department of Human Rights Theory and Practice at the Police Academy. Apart from the establishment of the Resource Center with a fully-stocked library on human rights issues and a technical academic support, the major objective of the project is to include more law enforcement personnel in the in-service training at the Police Academy to learn about the practical application of the human rights standards in their daily work. The PCUz also conducted different training courses with a special focus on international human rights instruments and standards and their practical application within the penitentiary system, as well as training on the implementation of measures developed under the National Action Plan following the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the human rights situation in Uzbekistan. In order to further improve the activity of internal affairs bodies in the field of human rights protection, the PCUz supported the publication of 4,000 copies of a handbook, which was distributed among the police officers. The PCUz supported the publication of 3,500 posters showing the provisions of the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On the Appeals of Citizens”, and 3,500 posters showing the Ministry of Internal Affairs Hotline information in the Uzbek, Russian and Karakalpaki languages. The posters were distributed among regional, district, city and town police departments and posted for easy access of the population. Due to the success of this initiative and the high demand from the police officers, the Project Co-ordinator planed to render support in translating the posters into the Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik and Turkmen languages and in printing more copies for distribution in the residential areas of these national minority groups. In addition, the PCUz supported the publication of 200 calendars for 2011 in the Uzbek and Russian languages with articles of the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On the Appeals of Citizens”. The calendars were distributed among police officers in all regions of the country. 109