and Section for Combating THB as well as to the Ministry of Security in drafting a new Rulebook on Protection of Foreign Victims of Trafficking. Hate Crimes Since 2008, the Mission has, as part of its justice sector and reform programme, monitored the occurrence of bias-motivated and hate-related incidents and responses to such by law enforcement officials, judicial authorities and government authorities at both local and State levels. In the past, the Mission has been engaged in the training of police and law enforcement officials through ODIHR’s ‘Law Enforcement Officer’s Programme’ (LEOP). Through it, 22 police officials from both the RS and the FBiH attended a five-day training on how to identify and investigate hate crimes. A Memorandum of Agreement containing important commitments regarding the strengthening of law enforcement officers’ efforts and training in responding to hate crimes was also signed during this period between the BiH Ministry of Security and ODIHR. As a follow-up to the above, a working group was established in 2010 with the purpose of facilitating the incorporation of specialized training modules on hate crimes within the curricula of both entities’ Police Academies in BiH. The working group was to be led by the National Point of Contact on Hate Crimes. In 2013, the FBiH Police Academy adopted a training curriculum on hate crimes which was going to be implemented in co-operation with the Mission in 2014. The Mission has also supported the strengthening of the domestic legal framework in relation to the hate-related provisions in the entities’ Criminal Codes. In addition to the Mission’s advocacy efforts in 2010 to amend the RS and Brčko Criminal Codes, the Mission was also pleased to see the recent adoption of its comments to the RS Criminal Code in relation to the hate crime provisions, by the RSNA. At the end of 2013, the Mission worked to assess recent developments in the FBiH Parliament in order to take the appropriate advocacy measures. The Mission closely co-operated with a local NGO in implementing a training course for police on hate crimes and organized an event on the prosecution of hate crimes in which police and other competent authorities took part. At both events, the Mission presented the concept of hate crimes and the legal framework applicable across BiH. The Mission’s Tackling Hate Crimes report and Understanding Hate Crimes booklet were distributed to participants for information and future reference. Other preparatory activities for including hate crimes into police training for cadets and in-service police were conducted by the Mission in 2013. In November and December 2013, the Mission met with the entity Police Academy Directors, who both agreed, in principle, to co-operate in efforts to ensure that hate crimes training is included. War Crimes Investigations To address the estimated backlog of 1,200 war crimes cases in BiH, as part of the War Crimes Processing extra-budgetary project, the Mission developed an investigation manual for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in BiH. The manual will be a sustainable tool for training BiH police inspectors in war crimes investigations. The training programme for police has not previously included war crimes specific components and the 300 page manual was expected to fill a critical void in this area. The manual was developed in partnership with the FBiH and RS police academies, and follow-up trainings were planned to be held in partnership with the academies. The training was to target all police inspectors assigned to war crimes investigations and police academy trainers with the aim of developing a self-sustainable training programme independently run by the police academies as part of basic training. 52