The OS/Borders Team in the CPC focused primarily on supporting various capacity-building events within the new OSCE Border Management Staff College in Tajikistan and in a number of participating States by providing training sessions on drug trafficking, trafficking in human beings, patrolling and surveillance, and anti-corruption initiatives for border police/guards and customs officers from various participating States, Afghanistan and Mongolia. The Gender Section in the Office of the Secretary General continued providing assistance to integrate a gender perspective in police-related activities of the OSCE as well as in national police strategies of participating States, and further developed the roster for female experts in the first dimension. Police-related activities of the Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings continued to focus on providing training for police agencies, prosecutors and judges in the OSCE area to raise awareness about the human rights-based approach in the fight against THB, about the links of THB with other forms of transnational threats such as drug trafficking, corruption, money laundering and terrorist activities, and to promote international co-operation among law enforcement agencies. The police-related activities of the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities focused primarily on raising awareness of the participating States on the implementation of international legislative frameworks in the fields of combating corruption, money laundering and terrorist financing. Police-Related Activities of the OSCE Field Operations In view of the successful projects carried out during the last decade, the field operations in South-Eastern Europe continued to shift efforts in the area of police development, border and customs management and community policing from basic capacity-building to ensuring the sustainability of previous achievements through specific capacity-building in strategic planning, modern management of human resources, accountability and the further development of police training. Field operations in South-Eastern Europe also continued to devote significant attention to building national capacities in the fight against transnational threats while particularly addressing the fight against THB, anti-terrorism and criminal investigations/analysis. Due to a lack of dedicated policing components, the field operations in Eastern Europe continued to implement their police-related activities within the framework of their Rule of Law and Human Rights programmes. Supported by the SPMU, the field operations’ policerelated initiatives focused primarily on police accountability, police-public partnerships as well as on training in the fight against THB. Upon invitation from the Belarusian Ministry of Interior, training assistance from the Secretariat in the field of THB continued in 2011 following the closure of the OSCE Office in Minsk. The field operations in the South Caucasus further consolidated their community policing pilot projects across the host countries. Capacity-building of relevant government agencies and civil society groups in the fight against human trafficking was also high on the agenda of both field operations in this region. Both field operations also addressed, to a lesser extent, the issues of cyber security and public order management. The Office in Yerevan also devoted much attention to the modernization of the police educational system. Police-related activities continued to increase in Central Asia with anti-THB activities being a common activity in all the field operations. Assistance in strategic planning of police reform was particularly high on the agenda of the Centre in Bishkek and the Office in Tajikistan. The development of police educational systems as well as gender issues in policing were also topics that most field operations in Central Asia focused on. Enhancing law enforcement capacities in criminal investigations was also on the police-related agenda of most of the field 12

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