POLICE-RELATED ACTIVITIES OF FIELD OPERATIONS SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE From 31 October to 1 November, as part of Mission support to national efforts in implementing the API ‘Road Map’, developed by the OSCE in 2017 as response to transnational threats of FTF, the Mission facilitated the participation of a national delegation at the 3rd OSCE-wide Seminar on ”Passenger Data Exchange” in Vienna. The aim of the seminar was to support the implementation of UNSCR 2396, which focuses on preventing the return of FTFs by collecting API and PNR data. On 28 and 29 November, in co-operation with TNTD/BSMU, the Mission conducted a study visit for six national focal points on BSM from the PD, Customs, Civil Aviation Agency, and Airports to Schiphol airport in the Netherlands. During the visit, participants were familiarized with the Dutch approach to information exchange, risk analysis, inter-agency and cross-border co-operation and security management at airports. They also had the opportunity to visit the airport security area and examine its border control, the latest document detection technology and the functioning of API system. The visit was the final activity within the BCSP in Montenegro, which had been the pilot country for BCSP in terms of supporting national efforts in improving information exchanges and co-operation to reduce global criminal and terrorist threats, particularly FTF’s returnees at international airports. The BCSP had been implemented successfully in Montenegro, the BCSP will now be replicated in another Western Balkans country during 2020. During 2019, building on the success of a regional workshop for the SEE region in 2018, in co-operation with TNTD/ BSMU and Ministry of Culture (MoC) and supported by the Italian and Slovak Embassies, the Mission organized three workshops in Podgorica to examine best practice in the protection of cultural heritage and prevention of trafficking. The first two workshops focused on establishing a database and culture property registry, while in the third, INTERPOL provided basic training to law enforcement agencies on how to access INTERPOL information and investigations in a coordinated manner in the fight against the illicit TCP. With the support of TNTD/BSMU, significant progress has been made in helping to develop an inter-institutional response to address TCP. Led by the MoC, in co-operation with the MoJ and law enforcement agencies, the government committed itself to developing a database and catalogue of cultural properties and cultural heritage. On 17 May, Montenegro signed the CoE Convention on Cultural Property Offences in Helsinki as a part of measures to strengthen the protection of cultural property with the aim of spreading and combating the destruction, harming and smuggling of cultural property through the criminalization of certain acts, Mission to Montenegro – Police-Related Activities in 2019 4 9 Total 37 Information Exchange / Institution and Capacity-Building Analysis of Lessons Learned, Assessments and Guidelines Training 24 ACTIVITIES ON: General Police Development and Reform 49% Threats posed by Criminal Activity 51% 79