OSCE Centre trains police officers on document security in Kazakhstan

A four-day OSCE-supported training seminar for Kazakhstan’s police officers on document integrity and advanced methods to detect document forgery began on 24 November 2014 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan.

The event was organized by the OSCE Centre in Astana in co-operation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and its Academy for some 30 police officers from the Karaganda Region.

The seminar is led by international experts from Georgia and Slovakia who will share best practices in international document security, including the key principles, falsification of travel documents, document control, the use of polymer substrates in document security, conventional printing techniques and the differences between digital printing techniques. They will also explore the preparation of passport production, machine-readable documents, systems of data coding, laminate safeguards, imposter verification, biometric identifiers and tactical profiling. Participants will also be provided with a guidebook on document security, which was developed by Austria’s Interior Ministry.

The seminar is part of the Centre’s long-standing efforts to promote the OSCE border security concept in Kazakhstan.