Within this framework the Centre supported two three-day seminars for a total of 50 administrative police officers in two regions of Southern Kazakhstan – Almaty and South Kazakhstan. The trainees acquired knowledge from leading national and international experts in the area of policing in multi-ethnic societies and community policing. Police officers were introduced to best operational policing practices for strengthening citizens’ trust and confidence in law enforcement. Training Development In parallel to the high-level meetings in Astana, the Centre organized a visit of the TNTD/ATU and TNTD/SPMU representatives to the Police Academy in Almaty. At the meeting an agreement was reached on organizing sub-regional training seminars on a number of topics at the Academy’s premises. The Centre also continued its multi-year project on Human Rights Education for Police Officers/Police Schools Instructors from most of Kazakhstan’s regions. The Centre and its implementing partner, the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law, organized a three-day ToT course and a master-class for more than 30 police schools instructors from several regions of Kazakhstan in Astana. The seminars built on the outcomes and recommendations of the Centre’s multi-year project started in 2010 with an aim to establish human rights education as an integral curriculum component at the police schools. From 14-16 November, the Centre supported a ToT event on a “Migration Management Curriculum” for specialized educational institutions at the MoIA’s Karagandy Academy. 40 migration experts and lecturers participated in the event. It was co-organized jointly with the IOM and the United Nations Women Sub-Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The training was conducted according to the international legal framework for migration management and addressed issues related to migrants’ mobility, freedom of movement, the responsibilities of the state, and gender-related aspects of migration. Criminal Investigations/Criminal Intelligence The Centre facilitated the participation of representatives of the MoIA’s Drug Control Committee, Almaty’s Department of Internal Affairs, and the National Security Committee in a training seminar on “Intelligence Gathering” organized by the Centre in Almaty. Financial Investigations/Money Laundering/Asset Seizure On 22 November, the Centre co-organized with the US Embassy a distance learning video seminar on “Countering the Legalization of Unlawfully Acquired Assets” at Kazakhstan’s Institute of the Prosecutor General’s Office. High-level domestic and international experts from Canada and Belgium shared their experience with over 100 employees of central and regional prosecutors’ offices nationwide, focusing on courts and prosecutor offices’ criminal procedures and practices. From 4-6 December, the Centre supported a training course in Astana for government officials from Kazakhstan on “International Mechanisms and Tools to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing”. The event brought together some 70 representatives of the Financial Police Agency and its Academy, the Committee on Financial Monitoring of the Finance Ministry of Kazakhstan and the Association of Experts on Countering the Laundering of Illegal Assets, as well as the Supreme Court, the Astana, Akmola and Karagandy regional courts, the specialized intra-district Criminal Court, the Office of the Prosecutor General, the National Bank and commercial banks. The course was delivered by experts from the UK, Ukraine, and the USA. The course was tailored to the specific needs of 126