comprehensive analysis of police-related OSCE Summit, Ministerial Council and Permanent Council Decisions; field operation mandates and Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) on police assistance; the Secretary General’s annual reports on police-related activities; the reports on OSCE activities in the fight against organized crime; programme-related data in IRMA and Doc.In; the 2008 SPMU lessons learned report on the Implementation of PoliceRelated Programmes in South-Eastern Europe; the 2010 Horizontal Evaluation of Police Training Activities report by the Office of Internal Oversight; and other relevant documentation as well as on a three-week online forum in POLIS, where all OSCE executive structures had the opportunity to assess their police related activities, to submit their inputs and to discuss forward looking perspectives and strategic recommendations for OSCE policing. More than 50 OSCE staff from the executive structures with police-related activities attended the forum. The findings of the report were further discussed at the APEM in May 2010 as well as at the 2010 Annual Security Review Conference. More than 140 participants attended the 2010 APEM. Based on the findings of the above mentioned report by the Secretary General and of the APEM and ASRC, the SPMU, by the end of 2010, prepared a “food for thought paper” on The Role of the SPMU and OSCE Police-Related Activities (SEC.GAL/4/11), which was submitted to the participating States in January 2011. The food for thought paper was to serve as a basis for the OSCE Strategic Framework for Police-Related Activities, which the participating States envisaged to adopt in 2011. Community Security Initiative in Kyrgyzstan In response to the violent crisis in the southern region of Kyrgyzstan that started in June 2010, the SPMU contributed to the efforts of the Secretariat in providing assistance to Kyrgyzstan in resolving the crisis. To this end the SPMU proposed initiatives aimed at reinforcing the police reform programme in the country. From 24-28 June, the SPA, together with other senior staff from the Secretariat, travelled to Bishkek and to Osh to undertake a needs assessment. Based on the needs assessment, the SPMU contributed to a concept paper for a potential deployment of an OSCE Police Advisory Group (PAG) that would aim to prevent the spillover of tensions in the region and promote post-conflict rehabilitation. On 22 July, the Permanent Council adopted the PAG mandate.8 From 17-21 October, following a visit to Vienna of the Kyrgyzstan Deputy Minister of Interior, the SPA travelled to Bishkek again, where he, in view of further developments in Kyrgyzstan, discussed with the Kyrgyz authorities, the HoC, the Head of the PAG and other senior staff, a revised concept of the PAG. This resulted in the “Community Security Initiative” project that was officially adopted by the participating States on 18 November 2010.9 Development of Baseline Police Capacities In its efforts to assist the participating States in developing baseline police capacities that comply with the requirements and obligations accepted by them by ratifying fundamental international legal instruments, the SPMU continued disseminating and promoting its key publications on democratic policing and operationalizing them in the framework of high-level regional workshops on democratic policing. From 30 September to 1 October, the SPMU, in close co-operation with the Regional Cooperation Council, organized a “Regional Workshop on Democratic Policing” in Sarajevo. The OSCE Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina provided logistical support and all field 8 9 16 See OSCE, Permanent Council Decision No. 947, OSCE Police Advisory Group to Kyrgyzstan, 824th Plenary Meeting, Vienna, 22 July 2010. See OSCE, Permanent Council Decision No. 961, Community Security Initiative in Kyrgyzstan, 838th Plenary Meeting, Vienna, 18 November 2010.