Twenty Tajik border officers complete the second round of OSCE-EU organized operational planning course in Khujand city

Border officers of Tajikistan’s Border Troops completed a three-week training course on operational planning on 13 May in Khujand city. The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe in co-operation with the Border Troops organized the course which was funded by the European Union.

The training course enhanced twenty Tajik border officer’s skills in operational planning, briefing techniques, information and risk management, gender awareness and command and control skills during the course. The officers learned how to collect data on case/situation, read topographic maps, and deal with cases of mass border crossing and provocation at the border.  

Colonel Shuhrat Yorov, Deputy Head of the State Border Protection Directorate of Tajikistan’s State Committee for National Security noted the co-operation between the Border Troops and the OSCE Programme Office has been beneficial for the country’s ​​border security. He stressed that capacity-building activities, such as this training course, “help improve their skills in analyzing the situation at the border, plan their patrol, combat activities and make timely decisions.”

Marodali Marodaliev, Training Officer with the Stabilization of Tajikistan’s Southern Border Region with Afghanistan project said that the course was designed for officers of the headquarters of Tajikistan’s Border Troops. He noted that what made it practical was that it was based on addressing difficulties that officers encountered in their day-to-day job.

This was the second in a series of nine training courses within the project on the Stabilization of Tajikistan’s southern border region with Afghanistan, funded through the European Union’s Foreign Policy Instrument. The project aims to increase the professional capacity of Tajik and Afghan Border Services to better tackle illicit activities in border areas.