4.2 Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina Background The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (the Mission) has traditionally concentrated its efforts on non-policing areas of assistance as the explicit mandate for policing support and reform post-Dayton was held initially by the United Nations International Police Task Force (IPTF), mandated by Annex 11 of the Dayton Peace Agreement, and later by the European Union Police Mission (EUPM). Currently, the EU Delegation to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is the leading international organization supporting BiH law enforcement agencies, including border police. Although the Mission does not have a dedicated law enforcement unit, it does provide regular support to law enforcement bodies in BiH through its core programmatic work aimed at reinforcing OSCE principles in security sector governance. It ensures that law enforcement representatives are included as participants, contributors and beneficiaries in all relevant activities and initiatives, even if they are not the exclusive intended target group. Training on BiH Security Policy On 27 October-6 November, the Mission co-organized the 10th annual BiH Security Policy course together with the Council of Ministers’ Inter-Ministerial Working Group for Security Policy. This comprehensive two-week course is part of a core educational programme the Mission helped to establish as the country’s official security policy training programme, which has gained full accreditation by the BiH Civil Service Agency. This year, some 40 participants received a comprehensive overview of the country’s security policy and the role of the various agencies in implementing it, to include the different police bodies in Bosnia and Herzegovina. As part of the course, participants received a briefing from the Director of the Directorate of Police Bodies in BiH about the results of police reform in the country to date. Participants also visited the State Investigation and Protection Agency Special Support Unit premises in Lukavica and a Border Police location at Sarajevo Airport, where they could see their police work first hand and ask questions about the security challenges they face. The annual Advanced Security Policy Course, which is also a part of the official BiH programme of security policy training, was held from December 2-4. This course gathers alumni of the two-week comprehensive course several years later in order to review developments in security policy and look at current topics in greater depth. This year, a briefing was given by the BiH Agency for Education and Professional Training on the education system for new police officers, and a representative from the Police College of the Republika Srpska Ministry of Interior spoke about the European Anti-Fraud Office’s (OLAF) role in safekeeping of the EU budget. The 25 course attendees included staff of the Brcko District Police and Federation, Zenica-Doboj Canton and Tuzla Canton Ministries of Interior. Anti-Corruption On 27-28 November, the Mission organized a workshop on “Building Integrity in the Security Sector – Corruption Risk Reduction”, in co-operation with the NGO Centre for Security Studies and the BiH Agency for the Prevention of Corruption and Coordination of the Fight against Corruption. The purpose of the Workshop was to start the process of developing Integrity Plans in those institutions that have not yet created them by introducing the methodology for their creation and by reviewing Integrity Plans already finalized by some BiH institutions. The process helps to identify risks for corruption and methods for managing those risks. Many of the 30 participants in attendance came from various law enforcement 55