The Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in
Human Beings (OSR/CTHB) focused on fostering the exchange of experience among
criminal justice institutions on the prosecution of trafficking offenders as well as the
investigation of sexual crimes. Additionally, the Office continued to organize capacity building
events for prosecutors, law enforcement officers, military personnel and border guards. The
OSR/CTHB advanced co-operation with the TNDT in the area of combating human trafficking
and enhanced co-operation within the Alliance against Trafficking in Persons.
Activities of ODIHR
The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) continued to promote the
inclusion of human rights into the teaching and training curricula of police-related institutions.
ODIHR also organized training events, campaigns and seminars to endorse mechanisms for
fighting gender-based violence and gender discrimination in policing, hate crime, human
trafficking and terrorism as well as to ensure further improvement of Roma-police
relationships and freedom of peaceful assembly.
Activities of Field Operations
The field operations in South-Eastern Europe concentrated a great deal of attention on the
areas of community policing/police-public partnerships, strategic planning of police reform,
training development and border management. Three-fourths of all their activities conducted
in 2013 focused on police development and reform. Due to the adoption of new Criminal
Procedure Codes in the countries of the region that introduced prosecutor-led investigations
in criminal proceedings, field operations devoted more time to enhancing the collaboration of
law enforcement and judicial authorities in criminal proceedings. While the number of
activities on the advancement of police accountability, public order management and the
development of police-media relations decreased notably, events aiming to address hate
crime and domestic violence received twice as much attention as during the previous year.
In the field of organized crime, the fight against THB received most attention, followed by
criminal analysis and investigations and the fight against illicit drugs and precursors. In
general, the number of activities related to legislative and strategic support increased by 50
percent compared to the previous year, while training and capacity building activities as well
as efforts to facilitate study tours and the participation of national stakeholders at
conferences abroad were implemented almost as often as in 2012.
In 2013, the field operations in Eastern Europe more than doubled their number of activities
related to police development and reform, mostly focusing on the areas of police
accountability, police-media relations and domestic violence. In general, activities addressing
the fight against THB remained the most dominant area of police assistance. The number of
training and capacity building activities tripled, while legislative support and the facilitation of
study tours and conference participation of national stakeholders abroad remained at the
same level compared to the previous year.
In the South Caucasus, significant differences remained with regard to the attention devoted
to community policing. Whereas the Office in Baku was not involved in community policing
anymore, the Office in Yerevan further increased its activities in this field of police
development, expanding the project to more community policing project sites across the host
country. Furthermore, the Office in Yerevan devoted much attention to the modernization of
the police educational system. Public order management remained a topic of interest in both
field operations with an increasing number of activities implemented by the Office in Baku.
The fight against THB also remained a priority area of activities in both field operations, with
the numbers of their activities slightly increasing in Armenia and decreasing in Azerbaijan. In
addition, the fight against cybercrime received significantly more attention by both field
operations. While the field operations’ activities related to the facilitation of study tours and
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