ANNEX TWO: COORDINATED AGENDA FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS

Cross reference	Term	Category	Description	Date	Lead agency
Short
General	S1	Research Unit	Enhancing the Research Unit by expanding it to 9 operators, with interdisciplinary capacities (documentation, information gathering, surveying, analysis, operational on drugs, traffic, violence and financial crimes)	September 2004 to January 2005	MPF and Research Unit
22b1	S2		Research Unit to workshop and produce a needs assessment for patrolling modalities based on the information from this report	November- December 2004	MPF and Research Unit
24a & 24c	S3	Public awareness	Prepare and conduct a national conference to launch the report and implement these recommendations	November 2004	MPF, other lead agencies and SaferAfrica
24b & 24c	S4		Undertake a needs assessment to enhance the PPP initiative in view of the recommendations of the National Conference and this report.	December 2004	MPFHQ, Research Unit and SaferAfrica
24b	S5		Create a central Coordinating Unit for the enhanced PPP initiative	January 2005	MPFHQ
24b	S6		Central Coordinating Unit of PPP to develop standard operating procedures and the yearly work-plan taking into account the needs expressed in	February to May 2005 and ongoing	Central Coordinating Unit PPP
22d1	S7	Operational	Enhancement of Information Exchange and Coordination among units: Needs assessment for an upgraded Operations Room (capacities, equipment, procedures)	October 2004	MPF Research Unit and SaferAfrica
22d1	S8		Implementing needs assessment results for Operations Room	November 2004 to March 2005	MPF, Research Unit and partners
22a3ii	S9	Central Crime Intelligence Unit	Commence structuring the Central Crime Intelligence Unit through visits and discussions with potential partners as per best practices – dedicated visits and inspections	September- December 2004	MPFHQs and SaferAfrica
22a3ii	S10		Creation of a Central Crime Intelligence Unit and undertake recruitment and capacity building activities to make the unit fully operational	January- March 2005	MPFHQs
22a3ii	S11		Create SOPS and work-plan for the Central Crime Intelligence Unit	April 2005	Central Crime Intelligence Unit
22a3iii &22a3iv	S12	Training	Task the Police Training Unit to undertake dedicated programmes on	October 2004 to	Police Training Unit
			general policing, specific capacities related to key offences as demonstrated in the report; and to coordinate enhanced training for specialized units such as Police Dog Section, IT Unit, Family Protection Unit, ADSU and others as needed such as the enhanced PPP	March 2005	supported by MPFHQs
26f	S13	Dialogue with tourism	Organize a priority workshop between the relevant agencies in charge of tourism and socio-economic development, tourism industry and operators, and other relevant stakeholders to discuss a new approach to tourism and safety issues with a view to impacting the World Summit on Tourism in 2005 and improving the engagement of the private sector with crime prevention.	October 2004	MPFHQs, relevant agencies (Ministry of Tourism) and private sector.
Medium
22a2	M1	Training and higher education	Initiate discussions and organize the creation of a dedicated curriculum for higher university education for police with a view to commence BSc courses in August 2005.	July 2004 to June 2005	MPFHQs, University of Mauritius and Partners including the University of Portsmouth
22a2	M2	Coordination	Research Unit workshops on improved mechanism and procedures for information exchange between police units including the creation of Standard Operating Procedures.	January 2005 to April 2005	Research Unit MPF
22a2	M3	Coordination	Research Unit workshops on improved mechanism and procedures for information exchange between MPF and other LEAs including the creation of Standard Operating Procedures.	March 2005 to June 2005	Research Unit MPF
22c1	M4	Procurement	Research Unit to undertake a procurement needs assessment based on emerging crime trends and the report recommendations	March-April 2005	Research Unit
22a2	M5	Higher education	Beginning of Higher Education course BSc – this course must take into account items of Section III recommendations a, b and c. either as preparatory work for the course or in the course itself.	August 2005	MPF, Mauritius University, Portsmouth and other
22b2& 22b3	M6	Research	Research Unit to undertake resurveying of offences as recommended in the report, namely 2 b and c	September 2005	MPF Research Unit
Long
23a	L1		The Research Unit to workshop a list of research areas of concern for joint undertaking with experts and the University of Mauritius Research Units as recommended in 38 1	November 2005 to June 2006	Research Unit and University of Mauritius, other partners and experts
23b	L2	Information collection and analysis	The Central Crime Intelligence Unit and the Research Unit to conduct specialized workshops on the nature of drug problems in Mauritius and scan present and future entry/exit point capabilities.	June-July 2005	CCIU and the RU
23c	L3	Research and documentation	Research Unit to commence documentation on items listed in 38 3.	December 2005 ongoing	Research Unit (and partners as needed)
23c	M7		The Central Crime Intelligence Unit and the Research Unit to conduct specialized workshopping on the items of this recommendation (profiling and profitability)	May 2005	CCIU and RU
24e	L9	Public awareness and victim empowerment	The central coordinating office PPP to engage in a dedicated programme for distribution of information leading to crime prevention and victim empowerment. Creation of programme and capacity building.	June-December 2005	CCPPP
26d	L5	Public awareness	Central coordinating office PPP to undertake the annual Crime Prevention and Awareness Week once a year (November to November) – The week to include a one day national dialogue or symposium among all stakeholders on the status of crime prevention and public awareness in Mauritius	November 2005 and ongoing	CCPPP and SaferAfrica
26e	L6	International information exchange	MPF HQs assisted by the CCIU and RU to hold an international police officers seminar in Mauritius to discuss trends, information exchange and procedures for crime prevention – this to be held on an annual basis	October 2005 and ongoing	CCIU, RU and MPFHQs

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