public violence which had occurred in schools or in public transport. In two selected municipalities of Skopje - the city most affected by youth violence in schools and on public transport - the PDU facilitated the initiation of local police projects to prevent youth violence. In co-ordination with local government and police authorities23, the Mission built upon the successful implementation of the 2011 activities of the “Safe Schools – Harmonious Environment” 24 project against school violence. The MoIA and the Ministry of Education and Science had decided to extend the project for the 2012-13 school year. The PDU thus continued implementing the project in a cross-departmental approach jointly with the Mission’s Democratic Governance Unit/Human Dimension Department. The project brought together teachers, students, parents, police, social service workers and other concerned community members to jointly address the issue of school safety by organizing awarenessraising activities, as well as sports tournaments and a musical youth festival to prevent antisocial youth behaviours. In 2013, 27 secondary schools and one primary school from nine multi-ethnic municipalities from across the country were involved. On 26 October, two promotional videos, produced under the initiative with the support of the PDU, were also broadcasted simultaneously in six municipalities as part of the campaign “Together against Violence”. Overall Security and Transnational Threats In 2013, in order to further support the Government’s capacity to counter Transnational Threats such as terrorism, extremism and trafficking in drugs and human beings, the PDU continued to support the MoIA in developing best practices at the central and local levels by organizing advanced specialized training, and by assisting the Centre for Combating Organized and Serious Crime (CCOSC) and the Administration of Security and Counter Intelligence. On 25-29 November, the PDU organized a ToT on “Operational Crime Intelligence Analysis” for 17 participants representing the CCOSC and eight Sectors of Internal Affairs. During the training, delivered by three experts from the Turkish International Academy against Drugs and Organized Crime (TADOC), participants enhanced their skills and knowledge on operational and strategic criminal intelligence analysis. Furthermore, the training resulted in creating a pool of trainers who were going to cascade the training to the newly-recruited staff. Counter-Terrorism Since 2011, the PDU, in the framework of its programme on the fight against organized crime and terrorism, has been providing institutional support and capacity building to the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (ASC) in the area of counter-terrorism investigations. To this end, a number of innovative training sessions were held in 2013 to provide targeted and highly specialized training courses in the areas of preventive measures and special investigative techniques for the effective fight against terrorism. In addition to a wide range of trainings and conferences25 organized for newly recruited police officers and the special units of the Police, the PDU organized a study visit for six high-ranking police officials from the ASC to Ankara from 29 April to 3 May. The ASC officials visited the in23 24 25 104 Local government and Police were involved in the project. The project aimed to support the MoIA, the Ministry of Education and Science, local self-government units and Local Prevention Councils in creating a sustainable prevention-orientated school safety model to contribute to the overall safety and help reduce violent incidents and behaviour, including inter-ethnic intolerance among young people in secondary schools. Inter alia: “Combating Terrorist Organizations Abusing Religion” (organized on 19-23 August 2013 in Skopje in cooperation with the Turkish Police to gain knowledge on the Radicalization process; in terrorist Groups abusing religion); “Collecting Operational Intelligence Data on Terrorism training (Homeland Security Intelligence Training)” organized on 27-31 May 2013 in Skopje. PDU supported the participation of the ASC’s Head of Sector in the Department for Antiterrorism and Demining to the Conference on” Priority issues for international co-operation in the fight against terrorism” organized on 10-11 October 2013 by the OSCE TNTD/ATU jointly with ODIHR in Kyiv, Ukraine.