Executive Summary
Activities of Field Operations
In South-Eastern Europe, 71 per cent of all police-related
activities focused on general police development and reform,
the main areas being human rights, police accountability
and community policing. The most significant proportion of
activities related to threats posed by criminal activity focused
on counter-terrorism and P/C VERLT. The OSCE Presence
in Albania, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro and the OSCE
Mission to Skopje mostly addressed threats posed by criminal
activity, whereas around three quarters of all activities
delivered by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, the OSCE Mission
to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the OSCE Mission to Serbia
concentrated on police development and reform.
In Eastern Europe, the OSCE Mission to Moldova
concentrated slightly over 86 per cent of its police-related
activities on police development and reform, under the topics
of gender-based and domestic violence and of hate crime. The
remaining activities of its work to address threats posed by
criminal activities focused on human trafficking. The OSCE
Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine reported 63 per cent of its
police-related activities in police development and reform,
with gender-based and domestic violence being the most
prevalent activities.
In Central Asia, 53 per cent of the field operations’ activities
were dedicated to threats posed by criminal activity, while the
remaining 47 per cent focused on police development and
reform. Although both percentages are similar, the number
of events organized in the region by the field operations
varied considerably. While the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat, the
OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan (then Astana) and
the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan mainly focused
on initiatives related to threats posed by criminal activity,
the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe and the OSCE
Programme Office in Bishkek devoted most of their activities
to general police reform and development.
Activities of OSCE Institutions
ODIHR was the only OSCE institution involved in policerelated activities in 2018. The Office continued to promote
the inclusion of human rights into the teaching and training
curricula of police institutions. As in previous years, particular
emphasis was placed on addressing hate crimes within the
Office’s comprehensive Training against Hate Crimes for Law
Enforcement (TAHCLE) programme.
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