OSCE trains 20 Mongolian law enforcement personnel on detecting forged travel documents

Twenty Mongolian law enforcement personnel, including four women, from the country’s Forensics Institute, the national police and the border protection, customs and immigration agencies completed a five-day advanced training course in Ulaanbaatar on 30 November 2018 to increase their operational awareness in detecting forged documents. The course was organized by the Border Security and Management Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department in co-operation with the Mongolian Law Enforcement University and Austria’s Federal Ministry of the Interior.

This course was the third in a series of courses on detecting forged travel documents taking place every autumn in Mongolia from 2016 to 2020. The course has a strong interactive component and includes practical exercises on identifying the security features of documents and the use of forensic equipment to identify document forgery.

In order to enhance the long-term technical capacity of Mongolian law enforcement personnel, 20 high-quality hand-held magnifiers that were used during the course were handed over to each participant for them to keep.

The training course is based on the curriculum developed by the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior. The training materials have been recognized by the European Agency for the Management of Operational Co-operation at the External Borders (FRONTEX) as a best practice. Document adviser Friedrich Frank and Document Specialist Bernhard Dunser from the Austrian Ministry conducted the course.