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OSCE Mission supports capacity building of Serbian police in investigating cybercrime and cyber forensics

6 November 2018

BELGRADE, 6 November 2018 – The OSCE Mission to Serbia, in close partnership with the Ministry of the Interior (MoI) on 6 and 7 November organized a training course for building police capacities in cyber forensics and investigating cybercrime. 

The course was the first in a series of four which will take place across Serbia by April 2019, with the aim to establish a countrywide network of 60 cyber forensics investigators.

Experts from the MoI’s Department for Suppression of Hi-Tech Crime, who conducted the training with the OSCE’s support, formed a mobile team of trainers that will travel and spread its expertise in this domain among police officers countrywide.

To support them in this endeavour, the OSCE Mission to Serbia donated ten laptops and one projector to the mobile training team.

The Head of OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Andrea Orizio, and the Police Director, Vladimir Rebic, addressed the participants at the opening of the training in Belgrade.

“Keeping up to date with world-wide trends while building local networks of experts is the only way to be on top of investigating 21st century cybercrime and cyber forensics.  By supporting this training course and donating IT equipment, the OSCE Mission to Serbia is fostering close partnership with the MoI, which has already yielded important results in the Ministry’s efforts to combat cybercrime. The ultimate goal is full local ownership of these accomplishments,” said the Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Andrea Orizio.

“The OSCE Mission stands ready to further support the MoI in building a  pool of cybersecurity experts in the police force across Serbia,” he added.

This activity is a part of the OSCE Mission to Serbia’s project “Strengthening Serbian Authorities in the Fight against Organized and Transnational Crime”. It also complements activities in the second stage of the regional project “Capacity Building for Criminal Justice Practitioners Combating Cybercrime and Cyber-enabled Crime in South-Eastern Europe”, implemented by the Serbian MoI and the OSCE Transnational Threats Department’s Strategic Police Matters Unit, with the assistance of the OSCE Mission to Serbia.