EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Annual Report of the Secretary General on Police-Related Activities in 2014, submitted in accordance with Decision 9, paragraph 6, of the 2001 Bucharest Ministerial Council Meeting, provides an overview of the police-related programmes and projects implemented by the OSCE executive structures, including the thematic units in the Secretariat, the institutions and the field operations, during 2014. General Overview of Police-Related Activities In line with its mandate and the interests of participating States, the OSCE continued to provide police assistance in two major areas: 1) general police development and reform, and 2) the fight against transnational threats, including organized crime, terrorism, illicit drugs and chemical precursors, trafficking in human beings and cybercrime. With a total number of some 1,550 activities, 2014 was a very active year for OSCE structures involved in policing-related issues.1 More than two-thirds of all police-related activities were dedicated to addressing general police development and reform, approximately the same proportion as in 2013. Activities devoted to enhancing and consolidating community policing/police-public partnership projects were still the most common among the executive structures (over one-third of all activities), particularly in South-Eastern Europe, as well as in Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. The proportion of activities devoted to community policing rose slightly from 2013. Efforts to enhance police accountability through monitoring during crises, strengthening border management and customs and addressing domestic violence were the other three areas that received the most attention by the executive structures. Criminal legislation and procedure codes, strategic planning, and training development also received notable attention.2 With regard to the fight against transnational threats, activities related to countering trafficking in human beings remained the most prominent field of work, with a little less than a quarter of all activities devoted to this topic. These projects were particularly well represented in the field operations in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus and in the Secretariat. The fight against organized crime in general and the strengthening of cross-cutting criminal investigations and analysis received the second and third greatest attention, respectively, slightly outnumbering activities on drug trafficking, cybercrime and counter-terrorism. Activities that addressed anti-corruption, financial investigations/anti-money laundering and forensics also received notable attention. The following chart provides an overview of the OSCE’s police-related activities in 2014: 1 2 12 Given changes in how activities have been categorized and counted in recent years, this total is only approximately comparable to the numbers in previous reports. In 2013, about 1,200 activities were reported. In 2012, there had been some 900 activities. A detailed graphic overview of the types of assistance provided by the various executive structures in 2014 is given in Appendices 3 and 4 to this report.