Activities
Policing
The OSCE has strengthened its police-related activities to improve the protection of participating States from risks and challenges posed by trans-national and organized crime, by trafficking in drugs, arms and human beings, failure to uphold the rule of law and by human rights violations.
The organization has police advisers and police assistance programmes in several missions. Activities include police education and training, community policing and administrative and structural reforms.
OSCE Institutions and Field Operations conducting and co-ordinating police-related activities:
- Secretariat - Strategic Police Matters Unit
- OSCE Mission to Croatia
- OSCE Mission in Kosovo
- OSCE Mission to Montenegro
- OSCE Mission to Serbia
- OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje
- OSCE Centre in Bishkek (Police Assistance Programme to Kyrgyzstan)
- OSCE Mission to Georgia (Police Assistance Programme to Georgia)
- OSCE Office in Baku
- OSCE Office in Yerevan
Features
Helping to improve policing in Serbia's diverse communities
Thanks to support from the OSCE, police officers in Serbia are building a more diverse and tolerant service - one of the keys to increasing public safety.
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OSCE community policing pilot helps create safer kindergartens in Montenegro
An OSCE-supported project on community policing in Montenegro has scored some crime-fighting successes in its three pilot cities and will be rolled out across the country next year.
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Kosovo's police service comes of age
After eight years of the OSCE leading efforts to create an effective, multi-ethnic police service in Kosovo, the provisional authorities have now taken the wheel.
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The OSCE sponsors police training in Bishkek, July 2003. (OSCE)