News and press releases

VIENNA, 3 October 2011 – An expert seminar organized by the OSCE and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on leveraging efforts to fight human trafficking through clamping down on money laundering started in Vienna today...

SKOPJE, 30 September 2011- An OSCE-supported specialized training session for police officers on handling armed offenders in a crowd concluded in Skopje today...

Some 50 police officers from 27 regional police directorates will be trained in community policing principles during a two- week course for Community Liaison Officers, in Vrnjacka Banja from 26 September to 7 October 2011. The OSCE Mission to Serbia is holding the event together with the Interior Ministry...

VIENNA, 22 September 2011 – A two-day Annual Police Experts Meeting (APEM) that started in Vienna today gathered some 120 international criminal justice experts who will share best practices and discuss how the reform of the criminal justice system can build capacity and increase effectiveness of the police structures...

From 4-11 September OSCE organized a study tour to London for representatives of the Women’s Police Association in Kyrgyzstan...

The OSCE Head of Mission, Ambassador Šarunas Adomavičius, met the Director of Montenegro's police, Veselin Veljovic, on 6 September 2011 to discuss the continuing police investigation into the three arson attacks on vehicles owned by daily newspaper Vijesti on 14 and 23 July and on 27 August....

NARYN, Kyrgyzstan, 7 September 2011- The first in a series of two-day training seminars on DNA expertise for forensic experts and investigators started today in Naryn in the north of Kyrgyzstan...