4.5 Mission to Serbia For 2018, the Mission proposed shifting focus from a police-centred to a more comprehensive and inclusive approach to security sector and governance reform, linking reform process in the fields of criminal justice system, law enforcement, defence, democratic control and community participation. Therefore, the Mission proposed to re-name its Police Affairs Department the Security Co-operation Department. Activities Related to General Police Development and Reform Strategic Planning including Threat Assessments On 3 February, the Mission presented the outcomes on the evaluation of the Strategy on SALW Control in the Republic of Serbia 2010–2015 to the MoI. The evaluation process was initiated in 2016 in co-ordination with all state actors involved in the implementation of the expired Strategy, including the Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the MoI. On this occasion, the Mission and the MoI agreed on future steps in the development of the new five-year Strategy. This activity is a part of the Mission’s overall efforts to support strategic institutional responses to combating proliferation of SALW, in co-operation with UNDP/SEESAC. In July and August, an external expert hired by the OSCE Mission to Serbia conducted a situation analysis on SALW control in the Republic of Serbia. Along with the assessment of the previous SALW Strategy and Action Plan (2010-2015) conducted by the Mission in 2016, the situation analysis was valuable for developing the new SALW Strategy and Action Plan (2018-2023). From 25 to 27 October and 11 to 13 December, the Mission, together with the MoI and the UNDP/SEESAC facilitated two three-day meetings for an inter-agency working group tasked to finalize the new Strategy and Action Plan to Control SALW in the Republic of Serbia in the Period 2018-2023. The Mission hired an expert to assist the working group in defining goals and activities in the new strategy and action plan. This activity is a part of the Mission’s overall efforts to support a strategic approach to controlling small arms and light weapons, in co-operation with UNDP/SEESAC. 80 Human Rights and Police Accountability From 10 April to 30 May, the Mission, together with the Office of the Commissioner for Protection of Equality and the MoI, organized four workshops for police officers on identifying various types of discrimination and adequate responses. A total of 120 officers from all 27 police districts in Serbia learned about international standards in this area, reviewed the existing national anti-discrimination legislation, including principles of gender equality in the security sector. The workshops were held in four sites: Sabac, Zlatibor, Vrnjacka Banja and Srebrno jezero. This activity complements the MoI’s commitment to upholding ethical principles and diversity in police work. It is part of the Mission’s wider efforts to foster accountability in the relationship between the community and the police service. In December, the Mission and the MoI jointly commissioned the tenth consecutive annual public perception survey on the work of the police, to provide reliable data for measuring trends in how citizens perceive effects of police reform. The survey was conducted on a representative sample of 1,000 interviewees through face-to-face interviews. The questionnaire contained 120 questions that were also used in the previous surveys, thus enabling comparison of data and studying of trends. Anti-Corruption On 30 January, the Mission and the MoI co-organized a fourweek specialized pilot course on prevention and suppression of corruption for economic crime police investigators from the MoI’s Service for Suppression of Crime. Participants learned how to document cases and act on public prosecutors’ orders to provide evidence. The objective of this activity was to increase the officers’ overall ability to investigate corruption-related cases, as well as to fine-tune the curricula for the upcoming specialized courses. This activity is part of the Mission’s wider efforts to enhance the police capacity to fight corruption. From 3 April to 24 May, the Mission conducted an assessment on how the new Law on the Organization and Jurisdiction of State Authorities in Suppressing Organized