OSCE helps Ukrainian law enforcement educational institutions to improve teaching of cybercrime investigation

Twenty teachers from educational institutions of Ukrainian law enforcement agencies enhanced their knowledge and skills in the area of investigating ICT-related crimes, during a five-day intensive train-the-trainer course that ends on 21 November 2014, in Kyiv.

The training course was organizedby the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine on request of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine.

Led by international experts, the course introduced representatives of the National Academy of Interior from Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa and Lviv Universities of Interior, Academy of Prosecutors and Academy of State Security Service of Ukraine to a standardized curriculum on countering cybercrime.

The participants discussed the need for specializedtraining courses for various law enforcement practitioners, including first responders, specialized operational staff and investigators, forensic experts and management.

The topics also included the ICT user identification techniques, how to establish the suspect’s location, gathering digital evidence, details and specifics while handling cases related to IT-facilitated human trafficking, including the storage and distribution of child abuse materials.

The goal of the training is to ensure sustainability, particularly by encouraging educators to incorporate the developed training material into the curriculum of police training institutions. This is done to ensure that the knowledge is transferred further to thepersonnel educated and retrained on regular basis in the law enforcement system.

The train-the-trainer course is part of a project by the Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine on “Enhancing the Prosecution of IT-facilitated Human Trafficking Crimes in Ukraine”. The project is implemented with the financial support from the Government of Canada and will be followed up by the development of a specialized training course on combating IT-facilitated human trafficking crimes.