News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE launches project on enhancing the capacity of Police and Customs Co-operation Centres in South-Eastern Europe
Publishing date: 25 October 2016
SKOPJE, 25 October 2016 – An OSCE project to enhance the capacity of Police and Customs Co-operation Centres in South-Eastern Europe was launched today at a conference in Skopje, which brought together heads of police, the border police, and customs services from across the Western Balkans...
Challenges related to foreign terrorist fighters and counter terrorism strategies in focus at OSCE Border Management Staff College event
Publishing date: 24 October 2016
DUSHANBE, 24 October 2016 – A roundtable discussion on the phenomenon of foreign fighters and counter-terrorism strategies that brought together experts, scholars, representatives of government agencies, civil society, diplomatic missions, international organizations and participants of the 16th Border Management Staff Course, ended today in Dushanbe...
Afghan border police officers complete OSCE patrol leadership course in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 19 October 2016
DUSHANBE, 19 October 2016 – Nineteen Afghan border police officers graduated today from the OSCE-supported patrolling and leadership course, which was held from 22 September to 19 October 2016 at the Gissar Training Centre, Tajikistan...
OSCE trains Mongolian law enforcement personnel on detecting forged travel documents
Publishing date: 17 October 2016
ULAANBAATAR, 17 October 2016 – A one-week intensive training course for Mongolian law enforcement personnel aimed at increasing their operational awareness to detect forged travel documents started today in Ulaanbaatar. This is the first of a series of trainings courses organized by the OSCE on detecting forged documents that will take place every autumn in Mongolia over the next five years to 2020...
OSCE concludes seminars on risk profiling for Kazakhstan’s border service
Publishing date: 10 October 2016
ASTANA, 10 October 2016- The fifth and concluding OSCE-supported training seminar for some 20 officers of the Border Service of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee on profiling techniques to counter transnational threats, began today in Astana...
Afghan border police officers, at OSCE course in Turkmenistan, discuss border security
Publishing date: 30 September 2016
ASHGABAT, 30 September 2016- Thirteen middle-rank border police officers from the northern border of Afghanistan today completed a five-day OSCE-supported executive general patrol course organized in the capital of Turkmenistan...
Officials from Tajik and Afghan customs services learn about enhancing electronic exchange of information at OSCE workshop in Dushanbe
Publishing date: 28 September 2016
DUSHANBE, 28 September 2016 – A workshop on the electronic exchange of customs information to facilitate legitimate trade and improve border crossing was the focus of a week-long workshop organized by the Border Unit of the OSCE Office in Tajikistan and conducted at the Office’s Border Management Staff College...