OSCE begins work with Mongolian law enforcement agencies on designing professional integrity and anti-corruption training programmes

ULAANBAATAR, 8 November 2016 – A four-day workshop for Mongolian law enforcement personnel focusing on ways to strengthen professional integrity and tackle corruption started today in Ulaanbaatar.

The workshop, organized by the Border Security and Management Unit of the OSCE Secretariat’s Transnational Threats Department, included twenty officers from the Border Protection Service, the Anti-Corruption Agency, the Police, and the Customs Service.

The interactive workshop included group work that will lead to the development of customized anti-corruption training programmes for the agencies represented.  The participants, guided by an OSCE international expert, will eventually utilize the programmes for the in-house trainings of officers from various Mongolian law enforcement structures.

The workshop is the latest in a series of OSCE capacity-building activities in the area of border security and management that began in 2013, soon after Mongolia became the OSCE’s 57th participating State. 

The workshop contributes to further strengthening the OSCE partnership with the Law Enforcement University under Mongolia’s Ministry of Justice. The University will serve as the focal point for co-ordination of OSCE support to Mongolia’s relevant national agencies dealing with transnational threats and challenges in the years to come.