News and press releases

A three-week advanced training course on the use of detection dogs began on 13 October 2014 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, with the aim of helping law enforcement officers deepen their knowledge and enhance their skills in the effective use of dogs in security-related operations...

DUSHANBE, 10 October 2014 – Twenty-two mid-rank and front-line officers, including three women from Tajik law enforcement agencies, completed a two-week OSCE training course today in Dushanbe on assessing threats along the border...

MONTREAL, 9 October 2014 – An OSCE-organized study visit to the 10th Symposium and Exhibition on Machine Readable Travel Documents, Biometrics and Border Security at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in Montreal for representatives of four Turkmenistan document issuance and passport control agencies concluded today.

DUSHANBE, 2 October 2014 – The delegation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) headed by the Secretary General Nikolay Bordyuzha visited the OSCE Border Management College yesterday in Dushanbe...

TURKMENBASHI, 26 September 20014 – 105 cadets at the Navy Institute of the Defence Ministry of Turkmenistan attended an OSCE-organized course on maritime border security and port management procedures and mechanisms that concluded in Turkmenbashi today.

DUSHANBE, 19 September 2014 – Twenty-four mid-rank and front-line officers from the Tajik border troops and national customs service completed today a week-long training course on use of radiation detectors and other equipment at the border check points by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan...

The OSCE Centre in Bishkek supported the “Barrier–2014” simulation exercises in the Ala-Buka district of Jalal-Abad province on 17-18 September 2014, with the aim of testing the readiness of border guards and law enforcement agencies in protecting the country’s borders...