4.6 Mission to Skopje General Police Development and Reform Police Development and Reform within Security Sector Reform On 20 April, the Mission organized an event to present findings from an evaluation of police officer training on the Law on Criminal Procedure. The subjects of this evaluation were more than 970 police officers attending the Missionorganized basic training and approximately 770 attending the advanced training in the period from 2011 to 2015. This impact evaluation, conducted by the PDU in 2016, focused on behaviour and performance of the police officers after attending training. Representatives from the MoIA, public prosecutors, judges, lawyers, legal practitioners and academia discussed the results of the impact evaluation report. The findings and recommendations presented in the report will be used to maintain and advance the impact of police officers’ training and to improve the implementation of the Law on Criminal Procedure. From 4 to 13 September and from 20 to 28 November, the Mission supported the implementation of the first and second phase of research on “Assessment of Further Professionalization of Police Services”. Two external experts supported by the Mission’s PDU distributed questionnaires to 400 uniformed police officers and visited eight SIAs and conducted interviews with chiefs of police stations, heads of SIAs and members of focus groups. The aim of this research is to assess the professional level of the National Police in performing three types of analysis: 1) Analysis of the existing Human Resources Management system; 2) Legislative analysis, and 3) Socio-political analysis. The results and recommendations of the research will be translated into action plans to be implemented in the following years. From 19 to 23 June and from 10 to 17 November, four representatives from the MoIA Training Centre (TC) attended the three-week training on an e-course “Design Training” delivered by an e-learning expert. During the training, participants developed a new police e-course “Detention and Prevention of Inadequate Enforcement”. This training aimed to build capacities of the TC e-course developers. In addition, from 21 to 26 December, two MoIA representatives from the MoIA IT Sector attended tailor made e-course design training facilitated by two e-learning experts. Participants created a short e-course for police officers on how to use the electronic register for counterfeit money. The e-course design training will support the sustainable police education within MoIA by modernization of the training process and implementation of e-learning methodology in its training system. From 15 to 17 November, the Mission, in co-operation with the MoIA, organized a three-day workshop to foster internal co-operation and co-ordination between the uniformed police and criminal investigation departments (CIDs). This was a follow-up on a workshop delivered in 2016. The workshop was attended by 28 police officials, including the heads of uniformed police and the heads of CIDs within the eight Sectors of Internal Affairs (SIAs) throughout the country, as well as selected CID inspectors and advisors from the MoIA’s Sector for Strategic Planning, Quality Control and Professional Standards. The purpose of the workshop was to encourage effective co-operation between police officers and develop good team spirit, contributing to increasing the efficiency of police investigative actions and delivering effective police service to citizens. From 4 to 6 July, the Mission organized a workshop on “INTEL Data”, aiming at further supporting intelligence-led policing (ILP) in the country. Fifteen MoIA representatives attended the workshop at the police training facilities. During the workshop, the participants were familiarized with software on INTEL Data, which aims to establish the foundation for information storage, analytical guidelines, rulebook and analytical reports, and to speed up the criminal analysis process both on strategic and operational levels. On 16 and 17 November, in co-operation with the Italian Embassy and the Italian Ministry of the Interior, the Mission held a workshop for operational police on stress management related to police work. The workshop was attended by a group of operational police officers from the Skopje area, who work in front-line policing and routinely deal with serious and critical incidents in their everyday work. The activity was a continuation of work carried out last year in this area, aiming to examine issues of trauma and stress in relation to police work. The workshop, which included law enforcement and military stress, analysis and coping mechanisms, and resilience and crisis management, was led by a police expert from the Italian MoI. On 6 September, the OSCE Guidebook on ILP was promoted in Skopje during a regional launching event which brought together 50 representatives of the public security sector from SEE. The guidebook presents ILP as a modern and 92 proactive law enforcement model and a realistic alternative to traditionally reactive forms of policing for participating States. The event was organized by the Mission, in cooperation with TNTD/SPMU, and aimed at bringing this publication closer to law enforcement agencies, policy makers, and academia and government officials from the SEE region in order to enhance public security.