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OSCE joint meeting to promote fighting the threat of illicit drugs

Publishing date: 27 June 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Policing
VIENNA, 27 June 2007- In partnership with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the OSCE Strategic Police Matters Unit is organizing a two-day conference on "Fighting the Threat of Illicit Drugs" that will start tomorrow.

OSCE Mission sponsors study visit of Kyrgyz police officers to Georgia

Publishing date: 13 June 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Policing
TBILISI, 13 June 2007- Six Kyrgyz police officers are in Georgia this week to study police-media liaison strategies. The visit was organized by the OSCE Mission to Georgia and the Georgian Interior Ministry...

OSCE seminar in Madrid to set up police gender balance network

Publishing date: 5 June 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Gender equality, Policing
MADRID, 5 June 2007- A seminar on gender balance in police management, organized by the OSCE Strategic Police Matters Unit and the Spanish Chairmanship, starts today in Madrid...

Police role in combating terrorism focus of OSCE Madrid meeting

Publishing date: 9 May 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism, Policing
MADRID, 9 May 2007- Enhancing the role of the police in the fight against terrorism was the aim of an experts-level OSCE meeting that ends in Madrid today. The two-day event..

OSCE Mission, Interior Ministry say efficient measures needed to curb hate-crimes in Croatia

Publishing date: 23 January 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Policing, Tolerance and non-discrimination
ZAGREB, 23 January 2007- Adequate criminal legislation would ensure the efficiency of law enforcement and enable judicial authorities to swiftly react to hate crime incidents, said participants at an OSCE-organized meeting in Zagreb today...

OSCE's Belgian Chairmanship says helped start new chapter for Organization

Publishing date: 5 December 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Summits / Ministerial Councils
What we do: Arms control, Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Economic activities, Border management, Environmental activities, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Education, Elections, Countering terrorism, Gender equality, Media freedom and development, National minority issues, Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector, Roma and Sinti, Rule of law, Tolerance and non-discrimination
BRUSSELS, 5 December 2006- OSCE Chairman Karel De Gucht said today Belgium had helped redress the balance between the three aspects of security and championed reforms that could end an introspective episode and start a new chapter for the Organization...

Police chiefs from OSCE countries agree to enhance co-operation to fight organized crime

Publishing date: 24 November 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
BRUSSELS, 24 November, 2006- At a Conference organized today at the initiative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, police chiefs from more than 50 OSCE countries agreed to intensify international...