News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE and Tajik Interior Ministry sign memorandum of understanding on police reform
Publishing date: 8 April 2011
DUSHANBE, 8 April 2011 – Ambassador Ivar Vikki, the Head of the OSCE Office in Tajikistan, and Interior Minister Abdurahim Kaharov signed a memorandum of understanding on police reform in Dushanbe today...
Women’s rights, police capacity building focus of OSCE workshop in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 16 March 2011
TASHKENT, 16 March 2011 – Building the capacity of national police personnel to protect women’s rights is the focus of a three-day OSCE-supported workshop that opened today in Tashkent...
OSCE Mission helps improve regional co-operation in combating drug trafficking
Publishing date: 15 March 2011
An exercise in combating international drug trafficking, designed and financed by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, concluded in Prishtinë/Priština on 11 March 2011...
OSCE Office conducts strategic planning workshop to support Tajikistan's police reform
Publishing date: 4 March 2011
DUSHANBE, 4 March 2011 – An OSCE-supported strategic planning workshop for 15 senior law enforcement commanders, held to support the country's police reform in line with democratic principles, ended today...
Albanian state police to train colleagues in Afghanistan following course supported by U.S. training programme, OSCE Presence
Publishing date: 25 February 2011
TIRANA, 25 February 2011 – Albanian police instructors today completed an OSCE-supported course that will enable them to travel to Afghanistan this summer to train Afghan police in basic policing techniques...
OSCE Mission trains police on counter-terrorism investigation
Publishing date: 21 February 2011
An OSCE Mission in Kosovo-organized training course on advanced counter-terrorism investigation commenced on 21 February 2011. The one-week course is for 14 police officers, including four female officers, from Vushtrri/Vučitrn. Four experts from Turkey will train the officers on a wide range of issues related to countering terrorism and organised crime and the analysis of major crime trends...
OSCE Office supports study tour to Germany for Azerbaijani police officers
Publishing date: 21 February 2011
BAKU, 21 February 2011 – Police officers from Azerbaijan began a week-long study visit to Germany today to learn about community policing methods as part of an OSCE Office in Baku project to improve interaction between the police and local communities...