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OSCE concludes training course on sustained field operational capacity for Tajikistan’s border officers in Spitamen district

19 May 2021
Participants of the training during practical session on first aid related to battlefield injuries, Spitamen district, 27 April 2021. (OSCE/Marodali Marodaliev) Photo details

Twenty-nine officers of Border Troops of the State Committee for National Security of Tajikistan (Border Troops) completed an EU-funded course on sustained field operational capacity on 18 May in the Special Border Unit in the Spitamen district. The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe (OSCE) in co-operation with Tajikistan’s Border Troops organized the training course.

The four-week course combined both practical and classroom-based sessions, which helped participants refine their skills on how to react to the threats emanating from outside the state borders and co-ordinate their joint operations to efficiently protect the state border. Modules included tactical patrolling, risk assessment, radio communications, patrol report writing, survival techniques specific to summer and winter, national border regulations, gender awareness and first aid related to battlefield injuries. National legislation and international human rights commitments pertaining to the rights and treatment of detainees and refugees were also discussed.

Colonel Shamsov Alovatsho, Deputy Head of the Main Department for Combat Training of Border Troops and Antoni Mis, OSCE Project Manager on Stabilization of Tajikistan’s Southern Border Region with Afghanistan, awarded participants with certificates of achievements.

At the closing ceremony, Colonel Shamsov noted that the co-operation between the OSCE and Border Troops has brought many positive results in strengthening border security and management in Tajikistan.

This training course is part of a project funded through the European Union’s Foreign Policy Instrument. The project aims to increase the professional capacity of both Tajikistan’s Border Troops and Afghan Border Services to better tackle illicit activities in border areas. The project also aims to strengthen the capacity of the Committee on Emergency Situations and Civil Defense to respond to natural disasters in border regions.