Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

What we do

Policing

OSCE police operations are an integral part of the Organization's efforts in conflict prevention and post-conflict rehabilitation. The OSCE’s police-related activities focus on 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. Activities include police education and training, community policing and administrative and structural reforms. Many OSCE field operations run their own programmes on police reform and development.

Paul Catrice, Deputy General Prosecutor of Liège, fields a participant's question about Belgium's experience in countering money laundering at an anti-money laundering seminar, Astana, 22 November 2012.

OSCE Centre in Astana holds anti-money laundering seminar

ASTANA, 22 November 2012 – The OSCE Centre in Astana supported a distance learning seminar on countering money laundering held today in Astana...

OSCE Mission to Skopje supports development of public relations in police

The OSCE Mission to Skopje organised on 16 November 2012 a regional conference in Mavrovo in the western part of the country, to advance the capacities of the Interior Ministry staff in the use of new technologies in public relations...

Participants in an OSCE-organized workshop on role of women in policing, Tashkent, 5 November 2012.

Women’s leadership in policing topic of OSCE-supported workshop in Uzbekistan

TASHKENT, 5 November 2012 – Addressing challenges faced by women in policing is the focus of a three-day OSCE-supported workshop that opened in Tashkent today...

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...

OSCE Mission to Skopje supports fighting corruption in police

SKOPJE, 11 October 2012 – Exchanging best practices on enhancing police integrity, anti-corruption measures, as well as discussing practical examples of regional co-operation, is the goal of an OSCE-supported regional conference that started in Skopje today...