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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:

Features

OSCE Office in Baku brings community policing to schools

Schoolchildren in Mingachevir, Azerbaijan, ask the OSCE Office in Baku police expert about plans for school policing activities, 24 December 2009. (OSCE)

To help children develop a positive image of the police as partners in ensuring a safe environment, the OSCE's community policing programme in Mingachevir, Azerbaijan, is being expanded to include police activities in schools.
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OSCE Mission to Serbia supports regional co-operation in combating organized crime

Ivica Dacic, Serbian Interior Minister, Boris Tadic, President of Serbia, Snezana Malovic, Serbian Justice Minister and Dimitrios Kypreos, Head the OSCE Mission to Serbia (l-r) at the regional conference on organized crime, Belgrade, 28 September 2009 (OSCE/Milan Obradovic)

Assistance provided by the OSCE Mission to Serbia to the country's judiciary and police has helped to create an environment open to co-operation with other Western Balkan countries in the fight against organized crime.
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OSCE Mission to Skopje helps build dialogue and trust to prevent crime

Jerry Owens, international expert on community policing, delivers training for police Officers of Prevention at the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje's Police Training Centre, 1 October 2009. (OSCE/Eberhard Laue)

At its Police Training Centre, the OSCE Mission to Skopje is preparing newly-appointed Officers of Prevention to take up their posts in communities throughout the country, thereby contributing to police reform based on international standards.
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Kyrgyz police explain their work to citizens of all ages at a workshop aimed at strengthening partnerships organized by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, 20 January 2009. (OSCE/Ruslan Izmaylov)

Kyrgyz police explain their work to citizens of all ages at a workshop aimed at strengthening partnerships organized by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, 20 January 2009. (OSCE/Ruslan Izmaylov)