Secretariat - Strategic Police Matters Unit

The SPMU supports policing in all OSCE participating States as part of the rule of law and fundamental democratic principles and, through assessment, expert advice and assistance, develops accountable policing services that protect and aid their citizens.

Police stand guard as protesters demonstrate outside the site of the US Democratic Party’s National Convention, Denver, 24 August 2008.

Policing of assemblies should be guided by respect for human rights, say participants of OSCE meeting

The importance of policing assemblies in line with human rights standards and OSCE commitments was highlighted at a meeting of more than 30 police officers and civil society representatives from across the OSCE region, in Vienna on 1 and 2 July 2013...

OSCE supports Afghan-Central Asia co-operation to fight drugs trade

Five senior Afghan law enforcement officials attended a two-day study visit on fighting drugs trafficking from 20 to 21 June 2013 in Tashkent. The visit was organized by the OSCE Secretariat’s Transnational Threats Department in co-operation with the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan...

OSCE trains Albanian law enforcement on seizure of criminal assets derived from human trafficking

An OSCE seminar on financial investigation and seizure of criminal assets related to different form of human trafficking was held with Albanian police, prosecutors, judges and financial investigators on 18 17 April 2013 in Tirana...
All 57 OSCE participating States have committed themselves to effective human rights education training for their law enforcement officials.

OSCE meeting in Istanbul ends with call for effective human rights education for law enforcement officials

Police agencies should do more to provide systemic and effective human rights education for its personnel, said participants at a meeting held in Istanbul by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Strategic Police Matters Unit (SPMU) of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, with the support of the Turkish National Police, on 10 and 11 December 2012...
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier speaking at the opening session of the Conference on Prevention of Illicit Drug Supply to Youth, organized by the OSCE and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Vienna, 18 October 2012.

Fighting illicit drug supply to young people focus of OSCE conference in Vienna

VIENNA, 18 October 2012 - Cutting the supply of illicit drugs to young people is the focus of an OSCE-organized conference which started in Vienna today...
Alexey Lyzhenkov, OSCE Co-ordinator of Activities to Address Transnational Threats (l), Ambassador Eoin O’Leary, Chairperson of the OSCE Permanent Council (c), and Knut Dreyer, the Senior Police Adviser to the OSCE Secretary General (r), at the OSCE’s annual police experts meeting, Vienna, 20 September 2012.

Cybercrime focus of annual OSCE police experts meeting

VIENNA, 20 September 2012 - Experts from academia, the private sector and criminal justice bodies will discuss ways to fight cybercrime at the OSCE’s annual police experts meeting which started in Vienna today...

OSCE trains police in targeting illicit proceeds of human trafficking

PRAGUE, 20 July 2012 – A three-day OSCE training seminar for police and financial investigators in how to identify, seize and confiscate criminal assets arising from human trafficking concluded today in Prague...

OSCE, private companies to support discussion on illegal cigarette trade, internet software piracy in South-Eastern Europe

VIENNA, 20 June 2012 - The OSCE's Transnational Threats Department in co-operation with OSCE field offices in South-Eastern Europe and the commercial sector are supporting a conference on combating the illicit trade in cigarettes and internet software piracy to be held in Ohrid on 21 and 22 June...
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