number of family members and colleagues of the deceased to cover all angles of the investigation. From 20 June to 3 July, the SPMU, in co-operation with the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat and with the support of the incoming Lithuanian Chairmanship organized a study tour for five Turkmen police officers to Lithuania. The study tour concentrated on police training and curriculum development and participants exchanged views and experiences on police education and training. Furthermore, on 4-5 October, the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat and the SPMU organized a twoday round table meeting on basic police training for Turkmen police officers. Experts from participating States attended the round table meeting and shared information about methods of human resource management and about the organization of basic, specialized and inservice training courses. From 24-25 November, the SPA, responding to a request and invitation from the Head of the OSCE office in Yerevan, travelled to Armenia where he met with the Prime Minister as well as relevant officials from the police and government authorities. He discussed the police reform process in Armenia, including legislative changes, police education and anticorruption measures. The SPA expressed his support to this endeavour that requires long term political, financial and expert support. On 9 December, a SPMU representative participated as keynote speaker in a “Workshop on Extremism and Radicalization”, which was organized by the ATU in Sarajevo (see 3.1) The SPMU contribution focused on the usefulness of various community policing tools to address crime prevention and the early identification of potential extremism within and among communities. On 7-9 April, the SPMU, upon invitation from the Bulgarian Chairmanship in Office of the Police Cooperation Convention for Southeast Europe Secretariat, participated in a meeting of the Police Academies. The meeting gathered Heads and/or Deputy Heads of Police Academies from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia, as well as representatives of the UNODC, SECI Centre, CEPOL, and Frontex. The Association of European Police Colleges and Austria also participated in the meeting. Participants discussed training needs of member countries of the Police Cooperation Convention. From 1-3 December, the SPMU participated in the “CEPOL Conference 2010 on Police Cooperation with European Neighbouring Countries”. The meeting provided an opportunity to enhance OSCE-CEPOL co-operation in training matters which was to be followed by setting up a formal co-operation with CEPOL aiming to exchange training materials between both organizations. Organized Crime in General In response to OSCE Ministerial Council Decision MC.DEC/5/06 on Organized Crime, the SPMU, in 2010, continued to be very active in dealing with organized crime topics. Throughout 2010, the SPMU represented the OSCE at the UNTOC Conference of Parties meetings and at the UN’s Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Conference (see also I.3). On 20-22 July 2010, the SPMU, in collaboration with the OSCE Centre in Astana and the UNODC, organized a “Regional Workshop on International Criminal Co-operation” in Astana. 18