partner organizations were the Embassy of France in Skopje, and the French National Police. During the year, the PDD provided financial and technical support to the MoIA for the implementation of the training for police officials on the new Law on Criminal Procedure (LCP) in accordance with the MoIA’s plan on LCP implementation. 24 The PDD supported 19 basic training courses on the new LCP, delivered at central level at the MoIA’s Police Training Centre in Idrizovo, Skopje. Each course lasted three days and a total of 371 MoIA staff were trained. In July, the Host country’s Parliament postponed the full implementation of the LCP until 1 December 2013. Due to this postponement, the MoIA asked the PDU to continue supporting the implementation of the training courses on the LCP at the central level and to monitor the implementation of the training on a decentralized level. This training has therefore been included in the PDU’s 2013 Operational Plan. In 2012, the Mission’s cross-departmental approach to training on the new LCP saw continued support by the Mission’s Rule of Law Department (RoLD) to the Ministry of Justice's Action Plan for Implementation of the new Law on Criminal Procedure (LCP), as part of the Government's multi-year Criminal Justice Reform Strategy. The RoLD organized 20 basic training events for legal practitioners and enforcement officials on the new LCP. The four-day practical training reached 270 judges and public prosecutors, 126 attorneys and 90 police and customs officials, ending the two-year cycle of basic training (2011-2012). The Academy for Judges and Public Prosecutors, a strategic partner in this project, continued to include a certain number of law enforcement officials (from the regular police, financial police and customs) in the trainings in view of the past success that mixed-group trainings demonstrated in 2011. The Academy also ensured co-ordination with the MoIA’s Police Training Centre. In 2012, the PDD continued to support training at the decentralized (or SIA) level. Since 2010, with the assistance of the OSCE and the US ICITAP, each of the eight regions within the country had been equipped with a training room. However, due to the systemization process, the status of trainers (Training Coordinators) and their position within the police became unclear with a marked reduction in decentralized training activities. Nevertheless, the PDD continued monitoring various regional trainings as well as the systemization process in general. A number of other training-related activities occurred throughout the year with the PDD’s active support. In late 2011, the MoIA Training Strategy had been drafted by a Working Group consisting of MoIA, EU, US ICITAP and PDD representatives. This project was fully funded and supported by the PDD with the Strategy being adopted in January 2012 and finalised shortly afterwards. Following-up on this development, on 21-22 May, the PDD, jointly with the MoIA, organized a “Roundtable Discussion on the Newly Adopted MoIA Training Strategy”. The aim of the discussion was to promote the new strategy and to contribute to strengthening the MoIA’s decentralized training structure, as well as to discuss the position and status of the decentralized Training Coordinators. On 24-28 August, 24 participants received training on the “Evaluation of the Quality of Police Training”. Two rounds of training for 43 Police Officers on “Problem Oriented Policing (POP)” took place on 26-30 November and 3-7 December. This POP training aimed to introduce the problem-oriented approach to policing and new crime prevention techniques, and to enhance participants’ skills in researching and analysing crime problems. The POP training curricula and supportive aids were translated into local languages and handed over by the PDD to the MoIA’s Police Training Centre. 24 The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and the MoIA signed a MoU whereby the MoIA’s Police Training Centre would be responsible for new LCP training courses targeting the MoIA (7,290 people in total). 97