The aim of the guidebook is to provide guidance to policy level officials, senior police professionals and community leaders, based on international experiences and in line with OSCE commitments in the field of counter-terrorism and human rights, on how to leverage community policing as part of an effective human-rights compliant, gender sensitive and multi-disciplinary approach to countering terrorism. The development of the guidebook was to be informed through an online discussion forum using POLIS. ****** 3.2 Operations Service / Borders Team in the Conflict Prevention Centre Background The CPC OS/Borders Team is the primary point of contact in the Secretariat for all border security and management related issues. The OS/Borders Team is responsible for co-ordinating the OSCE’s response to requests from participating States on this subject and maintaining the OSCE Border Security and Management National Focal Point (NFP) network. In 2011, five permanent staff of the OS/Borders Team were involved in activities to address crime-related issues in 2011, directly focusing on capacity-building activities concerned with combating drug trafficking, trafficking in human beings, control of exported small arms and light weapons and dual-use goods, and other major cross-border crimes relevant to the border security and management of OSCE participating States. Border Management Staff College In 2011, the OS/Borders Team supported diverse capacity-building training events within the Border Management Staff College (BMSC) throughout the year. The delivery of two fourweek long staff courses, addressing mid-level and senior management from border security and management agencies had priority and were successfully delivered, with nearly 60 participants. Attendees included officers from participating States, Afghanistan and Mongolia. The OS/Borders Team consistently provided instructors to the courses. Transnational Threats in Central Asia The OS/Borders Team provided support to the BMSC in its collaboration with INTERPOL (Project Kalkan) to convene an experts meeting of Central Asian participants to examine the connections between criminal activity and terrorism. The trends which show some rise in terrorist activity were scrutinized for linkage to known criminal networks and discussed as an area of intelligence/information sharing that would benefit all participating States. Together with the OSCE Office in Tajikistan and the BMSC, the OS/Borders Team co-hosted a group of OSCE Ambassadors at a workshop in Dushanbe in 2011. This awareness raising seminar introduced those in attendance to the complexities of organized crime and threats resident in the region. 28