4.4 Mission to Montenegro Background The OSCE Mission to Montenegro continued to support the Montenegrin authorities in transforming the Montenegrin Police into a professional, democratic police service, trusted and respected by society. In 2014, the Police Affairs Programme (PAF) within the Mission consisted of three international and four national staff members involved in a variety of police-related activities defined as priorities within the comprehensive police reform process. In response to a request from the host country, the Mission started to provide assistance to the authorities in the area of security sector reform in addition to law enforcement. To reflect this change of approach, the Mission re-titled its Police Affairs Programme to Security Co-operation Programme in order to better and more accurately describe the work that is being done. A Memorandum of Understanding between the Mission and the Ministry of Interior (MoI) defines the scope of the joint co-operation. In addition to police matters, the Memorandum also focuses on assistance to public administration and the non-governmental sector. Development of a new internal structure and staff recruitment in the MoI and Police remained ongoing in 2014. As a result of the systematisation process, new units in the Police Directorate were established on the following issues: financial investigation, cybercrime, trafficking in human beings and the fight against terrorism. Strategic Planning and Development On 18 February, the Mission’s police expert on organized crime participated in the working group meeting in Belgrade with representatives of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), Ministries of Interior of three South-Eastern European countries and other OSCE field operations. The working group is part of the two-year regional project “Enhancing Capacities for Strategic Analysis in Criminal Investigation: Directorates of the Serbian, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Montenegrin Ministries of Interior”. This project is being conducted with Europol and financed by the Swiss Government through DCAF. Integrity and Internal Control The Mission supported several activities involving police accountability and ethics, which will be further developed during 2015. In line with the Government’s Action Plan on the Judiciary and Fundamental Rights, the Mission provided an assessment to the Police Directorate of the implementation of internal control mechanisms. The issue of corruption will remain a key national strategic priority and will, therefore, continue to be an area of Mission assistance. On 18 March, the Mission supported printing of the newly adopted Police Code of Conduct, the Police Officers Property File and the File on Complaint Procedures Against Police officers, which were also published on the MoI website. This activity supported enhancing the legality, transparency and integrity of policing in Montenegro. On 24-25 March, in response to the rise of injuries from traffic accidents, the Mission and the NGO Association of Drivers of Montenegro organized a meeting in Podgorica entitled “Children’s Traffic Safety – a joint initiative of all relevant stakeholders in Montenegro”. The purpose was to exchange information between organizations and civil 83