KYIV, 21 November 2012 – A training seminar on curbing transnational organized crime for high-level officers of the specialized departments of the Security Service of Ukraine started in Kyiv today with support from the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU).

The two-day event, organized jointly with the OSCE Strategic Police Matters Unit and the Security Service of Ukraine, is focused on human and drugs trafficking issues and conducting organized crime risk and threat assessments in Ukraine, as well as on modern criminal analysis.

“Organized crime is one of the greatest threats to the democratic development and the well-being of modern societies,” said Rene BeBeau, Senior Project Officer of the OSCE PCU. “This training seminar will help improve the skills of Ukrainian officers in combating this threat.”

The training seminar is part of a capacity-building project on combating transnational organized crime that the PCU is implementing in co-operation with Ukraine’s Security Service.