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OSCE concludes training course on sustained field operation capacity for Tajikistan’s border officers in Tursunzoda district
Publishing date: 9 April 2021
A four-week training course on sustained field operation capacity for border officers of Tajikistan’s Border Troops was completed on 8 April in the Tursunzoda District. The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe in co-operation with Tajikistan’s Border Troops organized the course, which was funded by the European Union.
OSCE Border Management Staff College concludes its 28th Staff Course
Publishing date: 25 March 2021
The OSCE Border Management Staff College (BMSC) concluded its 28th Staff Course on 24 March 2021. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions on travel, this particular course was conducted only for local Tajik border security and management officials.
OSCE workshop on gender mainstreaming in human resources departments of border and law enforcement agencies
Publishing date: 24 March 2021
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Border management, Gender equality
More than 90 participants took part in an online workshop on gender mainstreaming in human resources departments of border and law enforcement agencies, which was organized on 23 March 2021 by the Border Security and Management Unit in the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department.
OSCE roundtable discussion addresses potential impact of vaccine travel documents on participating States
Publishing date: 18 March 2021
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Border management
How vaccine “passports” could impact border security agencies’ operations in the OSCE area was the focus of an online roundtable discussion organized by the OSCE on 18 March 2021.
Twenty Tajik border officers complete the first round of OSCE-EU organized operational planning course
Publishing date: 5 March 2021
Twenty border officers from Tajikistan’s Border Troops completed a three-week operational planning course on 5 March 2021 in the Hamadoni district of the Khatlon region. The course was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe in co-operation with the Border Troops and funded by the European Union.
European Union and OSCE support the start of construction works at Tajikistan’s Committee of Emergency Situations and Civil Defense Training Centre
Publishing date: 20 January 2021
High-level representatives from Tajikistan’s Committee of Emergency Situations and Civil Defense (CoESCD), the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe and the European Union Delegation to Tajikistan participated in the official start of renovation work on the CoESCD Training Centre on 19 January 2021 in Karatag, Shahrinav district. The renovation will turn the CoESCD Training Centre into a facility providing training where the Committee will be able to strengthen the capacity of responders on how to react to natural disasters in border regions.
OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan supplies Border Academy with devices for verifying travel document authenticity
Publishing date: 28 December 2020
The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan handed over 25 devices for verifying travel document authenticity during the signing of a donation agreement with the Border Academy of the Committee for National Security of Kazakhstan on 25 December 2020 in Almaty. The Academy will use the devices to train its current and future border controllers to identify forged travel documents.