News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission concludes operational command training programme for women officers of Kosovo Police
Publishing date: 3 May 2018
The OSCE Mission in Kosovo concluded its training programme on operational command duties for high ranked women officers of the Kosovo Police with a practical training from 29 April to 2 May 2018 at the South Wales Police (SWP) in Cardiff, United Kingdom...
OSCE trains transport police in Kazakhstan on risk profiling at transportation facilities
Publishing date: 20 April 2018
An OSCE-supported five-day training seminar on risk profiling techniques to ensure public safety at transportation facilities concluded on 20 April 2018 in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
OSCE holds workshop on establishing an Advance Passenger Information system in Georgia
Publishing date: 19 April 2018
A workshop on how to establish an Advance Passenger Information (API) system in Georgia, aimed at detecting and preventing the movement of foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs), was organized by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department’s Border Security and Management Unit (TNTD/BSMU) in Tbilisi from 17 to 19 April. The event brought together 45 representatives from all national agencies involved in passenger processing, including police and customs officials, the State Security Service, the Office of the Personal Data Protection Inspector, and the civil aviation authority...
OSCE organizes training seminar for law enforcement on media relations in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 18 April 2018
An OSCE-supported three-day training seminar for law enforcement press officers on the fundamentals of public relations and effective communication strategies between law enforcement and media concluded on 18 April 2018 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan...
OSCE Mission to Serbia supports further education of Serbian local police in preventing violent extremism
Publishing date: 17 April 2018
A series of four pilot training courses on preventing and identifying Violent Extremism and Radicalization that Lead to Terrorism (VERLT), for police commanders from the local Uniformed Police and the local Police Sections for Countering Terrorism and Extremism throughout Serbia, took place from March to April 2018 in Novi Sad, Niš, Novi Pazar and Belgrade...
OSCE trains community police officers in Kazakhstan on combating domestic violence
Publishing date: 29 March 2018
A two-day seminar organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana on the legal acts and mechanisms regulating the police’s work in combating domestic violence concluded on 29 March 2018 in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan...
OSCE co-organizes workshop in Strasbourg, France for prosecutors and judges on countering money laundering and the financing of terrorism
Publishing date: 28 March 2018
Some 100 anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing prosecutors and judges from 43 states and organizations came together in Strasbourg, France on 26 and 27 March 2018 for a workshop organized by the Strategic Police Matters Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the Council of Europe's MONEYVAL monitoring body...