Due to the PMP’s proactive approach in the design and implementation of project activities, the programme increased the institutional capacity of the CiB’s direct beneficiary, the Main Department on Combatting Organized Crime of the MoI. The national police made arrests and prosecuted in 190 cases, which is a ten per cent increase over 2013. MoI is open to partnership and co-operation with other stakeholders, such as other law enforcement agencies, media, international organizations, etc. The circle of stakeholders and concerned parties addressing the issue of combatting organized crime has been enlarged. Continued engagement with the Lithuanian Criminal Police Bureau, the Turkish Academy for Drugs and Organized Crime and other international and local partners is envisaged. Such partnerships are essential and timely in the light of impending regional circumstances, political and economic trends in Kyrgyzstan and transnational threats. Community Policing The CiB’s Community Policing (CP) project continued to promote principles of communitybased policing in line with the MoI strategy on police reform and in close co-ordination with other international and local security sector actors. In 2014, the CP placed special focus on increasing the ownership and commitments of local counterparts in order to increase sustainability of projects and activities. State counterparts such as the MoI and its province police departments, local self-governments and relevant governmental organizations were actively engaged in implementing joint activities. Local communities and Local Crime Prevention Centres have contributed significantly as well. The Centre facilitated more than 15 police-public outreach activities throughout the year. The majority were co-funded by local authorities and highlighted in mass media, thereby improving the public image of Kyrgyz police. For instance, a one-week campaign against Traffic Rule Violations in Osh was facilitated by PMP in collaboration with OSCE CSI and carried out by Osh City Police, Mayor’s Office Youth Committee, and PF “Youth of Osh”. The campaign included a comprehensive set of activities, such as information banners on billboards, light boxes at bus stops, posters in public transport, flyers disseminated at public places, TV inspections of parking violators, lectures at schools on traffic rules and the negative effects of drunk driving, and a campaign on main streets to follow traffic rules. All activities were accompanied by mass media and aired during evening news. As a result of the campaign, a video guide was produced to share with other cities and to be used as a teaching material on community policing practices in the KR. In co-operation with the MoI, the programme delivered ten seminars and workshops on community policing. Thus, training on community policing and prevention of extremism and radicalization was conducted to mid-level police managers of northern regions. Over 70 members of Local Crime Prevention Centres and Neighbourhood Inspectors were trained on crime analysis, problem solving and partnership in Chui, Jalal-Abad, Batken and Osh Provinces. About 95 newly recruited Juvenile Delinquency Inspectors and Neighbourhood Inspectors of Bishkek and Osh Cities were trained on “community policing: practical applications” by MoI JDI Department and MoI Staff Training Centre instructors, who previously attended OSCE organized ToTs and study tours to foreign countries. To enhance police-public partnership, a nationwide contest was supported to identify best Local Crime Prevention Centres, Aksakal Courts (Elderly Court) and Voluntary Civilian Patrols. Further, a round table was organized for Local Crime Prevention Centres in Osh to share good practices in police-community partnership and consider a joint city-wide action plan on crime prevention for 2015. The Osh City Mayor’s Office Law and Order and Defence Department supported the initiative to promote crime prevention at the city level. 144