From 26-27 May, TNTD/SPMU organized the Annual HoLEDs meeting in Belgrade, Serbia. The meeting gathered 50 representatives from the OSCE field operations, the Secretariat, ODIHR, UNODC and two civil society organizations, in order to enhance the exchange of information and the co-ordination of activities between the OSCE’s executive structures and relevant international partner organizations involved in police-related activities. The meeting addressed, inter alia, TNTD/SPMU activities in 2015/2016, regional co-operation of the OSCE executive structures and international partners, police-related activities of other executive structures in the OSCE Secretariat and at ODIHR, and activities in addressing VERLT initiated by the OSCE and its international partner organizations, as well as regional threat assessments conducted by working groups aiming to identify areas of regional co-operation in countering these threats. From 24-25 August, TNTD participated in a meeting of UNODC’s Law Enforcement Advisors and Co-ordinators of Law Enforcement Projects/Programmes that are stationed in UNODC’s Regional Offices around the world. Representatives from a number of regional and international police training schools and academies also participated. The meeting, which was held at the UNODC Headquarters in Vienna, was dedicated to law enforcement-related training with a special focus on new training methods, such as e-learning and offline-learning centres. From 15 July-10 August, TNTD assisted the OSCE Mission in Serbia and the ODIHR Legislative Support Unit in preparing an opinion and reviewing a new Law on Police for the Republic of Serbia. TNTD provided the OSCE Mission in Serbia and ODIHR with a number of comments. On 17 September, TNTD participated in the workshop on “Developing OSCE approaches in preventing and combating torture and enforced disappearances”, organized by the Civic Solidarity Platform in Warsaw, Poland. The event was sponsored by the OSCE Troika and aimed to discuss a draft decision on “The prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”, supported by the OSCE Serbian Chairmanship. The workshop was attended by around 40 participants from TNTD, ODIHR, and various NGOs. 18 On 18 November, TNTD, upon invitation from DCAF, participated in the fifteenth Meeting of the Governing Board of DCAF’s International Security Sector Advisory Team (ISSAT), held in Brussels, Belgium. This was the third time since 2013 that TNTD was invited to this meeting, which serves to inform the Governing Board Members about ISSAT’s past and future security sector reform (SSR) activities as well as to exchange updated information of SSRrelated activities of the Governing Board Members. From 24-25 November, TNTD participated in the regional HoLEDs meeting for South-Eastern Europe, held in Skopje, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Regional HoLEDs-TNTD meetings provide an opportunity to exchange information and to strengthen regional co-operation and coordination. A decision was made to create a regional e-mail address to facilitate and speed up the exchange of project ideas. TNTD informed participants about planned activities for 2016 and the TNT-related draft documents prepared for the Belgrade MC. Discussions on transnational threats in the region revealed that organized crime is assessed as the most significant criminal threat, followed by drug trafficking and terrorism. Anti-Corruption From 18-20 November, TNTD attended the fifteenth Annual Professional Conference and General Assembly of the European Partners against Corruption (EPAC-EACN), hosted by the French General Inspection of the National Police (IGPN) and organized by EPAC/EACN in Paris. The conference covered different aspects of corruption and the link between prevention and repression in fighting corruption. The conference brought together 86 delegates from law enforcement authorities and anti-corruption bodies of 32 Member States of the CoE and the EU. Community Policing and Police-Public Relations From 23-24 June, TNTD participated in the Regional Conference on Community Policing, titled “Establishment and Efficient Use of Community Safety Forums”, held in Pristina. TNTD gave a presentation on the OSCE’s approach in implementing community policing and the organization’s lessons learned in establishing community safety forums. The event gathered some 60 community policing experts from police agencies, local municipalities, community safety forums, and civil society organizations from South-Eastern Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, the OSCE, and EULEX, who shared their experiences and good practices in establishing police-public partnerships.