During the reporting period, the Department also organized a seminar on “Environmental Crime” with participants from law enforcement agencies, ministries, municipalities and NGOs, aiming to initiate multi-agency co-operation to combat environmental crime as an emerging form of organized crime, and to examine municipal, Kosovo-wide and international aspects. This led to an agreed plan of action for 2012 which includes enforcement and public awareness activities. ****** 4.3 The OSCE Mission to Montenegro Background The OSCE Mission to Montenegro supports the Montenegrin authorities in the ongoing police reform process aimed at transforming the Montenegrin Police into a professional, democratic, accountable, effective, and efficient service, accepted and respected by the society. In 2011, the Police Affairs Section (PAS) within the Mission consisted of four international and five national staff involved in a variety of police-related activities defined as priorities within the comprehensive police reform process. At the strategic level, the Mission and the Ministry of Interior (MoI) of Montenegro, on 19 July 2011, signed an annual Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on co-operation in the law enforcement area, facilitating further integration of the host State into European and Euro-Atlantic structures. The MoU aims at supporting the police reform process in the fields of: 50 - Developing a partnership relation with the local community through the implementation of the Community Policing Project, which shall include: assistance in the implementation of the National Community Policing Strategy; support in specific areas – traffic safety, border security and crime prevention; and training of police officers for the implementation of the Project. - Developing the Police Accountability System, which shall include: expert assistance and training in the development of the most effective systems for internal control; transparent internal investigative and anti corruption capacities and procedures, in line with international standards and values. - Enhancing criminal investigation capacities, especially in the fight against organized and serious crime, which shall include: providing assistance in the implementation of the Strategy for the Fight against Corruption and Organized Crime and the Action Plan for its implementation; support in establishing the National Co-ordination Unit of State Administration for the exchange of intelligence data; enhancing the capacity of the police to fight corruption, organized crime and economic crime; assistance in providing specialized training in Police Affairs that the Police Directorate defined as a priority; as well as facilitating the provision of necessary specialized equipment. - Enhancing the capacities of the Border Police, which shall include: further improvement of cross-border co-operation and support in the implementation of the Integrated Border Management Strategy and its Action Plan.

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