OSCE helps Ukraine’s border guard and state security personnel enhance knowledge and skills on fighting terrorism

Thirty experts from Ukraine’s agencies responsible for border security refined their skills and knowledge of fighting terrorism by using risk and criminal analysis at a two-week course for trainers, organized in Khmelnytsky by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine from 14 to 25 November 2016.  

The training course focused on the applicability of analytical tools to identifying and countering terrorist threats, and was delivered by experts from the Polish Border Guard. It involved interactive and practical assignments with analyses of terrorist attacks and applied exercises on managing crisis situations.

The participants - officers of risk and criminal analysis units of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, as well as professors from the National Academies of the State Border Guard Service and the Security Service - will be able to use the skills and knowledge they gained in their daily work, as well as train their colleagues on the subject.

Previously, the Project Co-ordinator developed a training curriculum and a manual on this subject and transferred these resources to the National Academy of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.