News and press releases

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the work of prosecutors’ offices was the focus of the fifth meeting of the Executive Board of the Permanent Conference of Organized Crime Prosecutors (PCOCP) on 12 November 2020. The meeting was held online with the support of the OSCE Mission to Serbia...

Representatives from police services and prosecution offices of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia completed a three-day workshop organized by the OSCE in Belgrade on 19 December 2019 on promoting closer co-operation and mutual legal assistance requests among countries of South-Eastern Europe to fight organized crime, particularly through the recovery of criminal assets...

BELGRADE, 4 June 2019 – Visiting Serbia today as part of his commitment to visit all OSCE field missions, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Slovak Foreign and European Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajčák, together with First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia Ivica Dačić and the Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Andrea Orizio, opened the High-Level Discussion on Security Sector Governance and Reform (SSG/R) in South-Eastern Europe in Belgrade...

The OSCE Mission to Serbia handed over IT equipment to the Interior Ministry’s Anti-corruption Department on the occasion of its first anniversary, on 15 March 2019. The donation will contribute to enhancing the technical capacity of the department to conduct efficient and effective investigations of economic crime and corruption...

How to prevent crime and violence committed by young people by encouraging their engagement in developing life skills, sports and education was explored at a workshop for around 30 high-level policymakers from South-East Europe organized in Belgrade on 17 December 2018 by the Strategic Police Matters Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department in co-operation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the OSCE Mission to Serbia...

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.

A one-week training course for 15 Serbian border guards to enhance their skills in detecting forged and fraudulent documents as well as imposters was held from 29 October to 2 November 2018 in Belgrade. The course was organized by the Border Security and Management Unit of the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department...