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OSCE Mission to Skopje supports training on security of public gatherings
SKOPJE, 30 September 2011 - An OSCE-supported specialized training session for police officers on handling armed offenders in a crowd concluded in Skopje today...
OSCE Annual Police Experts Meeting to focus on reform of criminal justice system
VIENNA, 22 September 2011 – A two-day Annual Police Experts Meeting (APEM) that started in Vienna today gathered some 120 international criminal justice experts who will share best practices and discuss how the reform of the criminal justice system can build capacity and increase effectiveness of the police structures...
OSCE Centre supports DNA training for investigators and forensic experts in Kyrgyzstan
NARYN, Kyrgyzstan, 7 September 2011 - The first in a series of two-day training seminars on DNA expertise for forensic experts and investigators started today in Naryn in the north of Kyrgyzstan... ()
OSCE holds Kyiv seminar on seizing and recovering illegal proceeds of drugs and crime
KYIV, 6 September 2011 - The OSCE Strategic Police Matters Unit in co-operation with Ukraine’s State Financial Monitoring Service launched an anti-crime profits-recovery seminar in Kyiv today...
OSCE Centre donates vehicles to Kyrgyzstan’s rural police stations
BISHKEK, 29 July 2011 – Today the OSCE Centre in Bishkek donated eight off-road vehicles to the Interior Ministry of Kyrgyzstan to be used in remote rural police stations covering villages located in mountainous isolated areas in Naryn, Chuy, Osh and Batken provinces... ()
OSCE Presence supports Central Election Commission and State Police in administering re-run election
TIRANA, 28 July 2011 – The OSCE Presence in Albania loaned today satellite phones to the Albanian State Police and the Central Election Commission to support their work in remote rural areas during the local government elections to re-run on 31 July 2011... ()
OSCE hosts workshop for Central Asian legal experts on international co-operation to combat crime
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 11 July 2011 – The fourth annual workshop on international co-operation in criminal matters for legal experts in Central Asia, co-hosted by the OSCE in co-operation with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), began in Almaty today...
OSCE Office supports Police Open Day in Mingachevir
MINGACHEVIR, Azerbaijan, 30 June 2011 - Hundreds of people attended the Police Open Day held in Mingachevir today by the OSCE Office in Baku and the Interior Ministry to raise awareness of police activities and foster a closer relationship between the law enforcement and the public...