News and press releases

A 10-day train-the-trainer course on the detection of forged documents and identification of imposters concluded in Tashkent on 9 June 2017. The course, organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan with support from the Transnational Threats Department’s Travel Document Security Programme, was attended by 19 officers of relevant departments of the State Border Protection and National Security Services and 12 officers of the Internal Affairs Ministry of Uzbekistan...

The OSCE Centre in Ashgabat organized a series of training courses for Turkmenistan’s customs and law enforcement officials on interdicting drugs and chemical precursors from 29 May to 7 June 2017...

Twenty Kyrgyz Border Service Officers improved their skills in map reading, pathfinding and providing first aid in the field during a course held from 8 May to 2 June 2017 at the Gissar Training Centre in Tajikistan, as part of the third phase of the OSCE’s Patrol Programming and Leadership Project...

PODGORICA, 1 June 2017- A workshop on how to establish an Advance Passenger Information (API) system in Montenegro in alignment with international standards, to help the country’s authorities better regulate the exit, entry and transit of air passengers, was organized by the OSCE from 30 May to 1 June 2017 in Podgorica...

DUSHANBE, 26 May 2017 – Ten Kyrgyz Border Service and ten Tajik Border Troops Officers completed today a three-week training-of-trainers (TofT) course organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan. The advanced training course for a limited number of border officers who had already attended basic patrol leadership course served to develop their skills and abilities to teach and transfer knowledge further within their respective services and training institutions...

SARAJEVO, 25 May – The newly established OSCE Mobile Training Team for the identification of foreign terrorist fighters delivered its first on-site interactive training course from 23 to 25 May in Sarajevo. During the three-day event, 22 border officers from airports in Bosnia and Herzegovina learned how to identify potential foreign terrorist fighters at the border crossing points in compliance with international human rights standards.

A five-day OSCE-supported training seminar for 30 border guards on the detection of forged travel documents and identification techniques concluded in Astana on 19 May 2017...