OSCE trains Kazakhstan’s border service officers in risk profiling

The fifth in a series of OSCE-supported five-day training courses on risk profiling at border checkpoints to assist sixteen officers of the Border Service of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee in countering transnational threats by using risk profiling at border checkpoints concluded in Aktobe, Kazakhstan on 30 June 2017.

The series was co-organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana, the United States Embassy in Kazakhstan and the Border Service of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee.

Experts from the Central Asian Regional Information Co-ordination Centre for Combating Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and their Precursors (CARICC) and the Academy of the Border Service of the Committee for National Security trained border guards in how to develop a system of risk profiling, employ statistical instruments to analyse information on criminal incidents and develop an actionable in-depth risk profile. 

The training course included techniques to better understand a person’s verbal and non-verbal behaviour as well as ways to identify specific risk indicators. A number of practical exercises provided the participants with the opportunity to apply their newly-acquired skills.

The event is part of the Office’s activities aimed at enhancing the host country’s border security and promoting integrated border security management while countering transnational threats. A follow-up event is scheduled to take place later this year in Kostanai.