4.3 The OSCE Mission to Montenegro Background The OSCE Mission to Montenegro supports the Montenegrin authorities in the ongoing police reform process aimed at transforming the Montenegrin Police into a professional, democratic, accountable, effective, and efficient service, accepted and respected by the society. In 2010, the Police Affairs Section (PAS) within the Mission consisted of five international and five national staff involved in a variety of police-related activities defined as priorities within the comprehensive police reform process. At the strategic level, the Mission and the Ministry of Interior and Public Administration of Montenegro (MoI), on 20 July 2010, signed an annual Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on co-operation in the law enforcement area. The MoU aims at supporting the police reform process in the fields of: • • • • • • • Strategic planning, focusing on enhancing the strategic planning and management capacity of the MoI and Police Directorate; Co-ordination of police-related activities amongst international organizations; Community policing, which includes assistance in the implementation of the National Community Policing Strategy and support in concrete, specific areas – traffic safety, border security and crime prevention; Accountability, focusing on assisting and supporting the development of effective and transparent internal investigative and anti-corruption capacities in line with internationally recognized democratic norms and values; Organized crime/terrorism, focusing on enhancing criminal investigation capacity especially in the fight against corruption, organized, serious, and economic crime, and assisting in the implementation of the Strategy for the Fight against Corruption and Organized Crime. Activities include support in establishing the National Coordination Unit and State Administration for the exchange of intelligence data; assistance in providing the necessary specialized training in the use of special investigation means and methods; training for the work in criminal intelligence system; providing support for obtaining of special certificates in different areas of work within the Forensic Centre; enhancing forensic capacity, facilitating the provision of necessary specialized equipment; as well as strengthening the capacity for crime scene investigation through the development of criminal investigation techniques, methods, and practices of crime scene management. Border policing, focusing on further improvement of cross-border cooperation and support in implementation of the Integrated Border Management Strategy and Action Plan for its implementation. Police education and development, focusing on: providing assistance, consultancy and support to the police reform process through general education and training; trainer development programmes; curriculum development assistance; improvement of the police��s capacities for a substantive delivering of training programmes; and improving infrastructure and equipment through integrating international community support. Strategic Planning and Development The Mission continued assisting the Montenegrin Police in enhancing the strategic and management capacity of the Police Directorate (PD). Within the project “Capacity Building of Police Strategic Planning Unit (SPU)”, the Mission organized the second part of comprehensive management training (Introductory Diploma in Management) for seven police 45