News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre organizes course for Kyrgyz Border Service on detecting false IDs
Publishing date: 12 December 2008
BISHKEK, 12 December 2008- Eighteen Border Service officers completed a training course on identifying counterfeit ID documents in Bishkek today...
OSCE Centre supports forensic training course for Kyrgyz police
Publishing date: 12 December 2008
OSH, Kyrgyzstan, 12 December 2008- Identifying the profile of a person through examining his handwriting was the aim of training course that ended in Osh today...
OSCE Centre helps Kyrgyz police improve fingerprint database
Publishing date: 12 December 2008
BISHKEK, 12 December 2008- An automated fingerprint identification system will be introduced by the Interior Ministry as part of the Kyrgyz Police Programme to improve crime investigation capacity...
OSCE POLIS platform now in French
Publishing date: 11 December 2008
VIENNA, 11 December 2008- The OSCE web platform for law enforcement professionals, POLIS, is now available in French...
OSCE Mission to Georgia organizes study visit to France for Georgian penitentiary officials
Publishing date: 9 December 2008
TBILISI, 9 December 2008- Officials from Georgia's Penitentiary and Probation Training Centre are in Agen, France today to meet French legal practitioners as part of an OSCE-organized study visit...
Serbian cadets graduate from new police training centre with OSCE Mission's support
Publishing date: 5 December 2008
BELGRADE, 5 December 2008- The first 129 cadets graduated from the newly established Basic Police Training Centre in Sremska Kamenica today. The OSCE Mission to Serbia supported...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports Kyrgyz police reforms to prevent torture
Publishing date: 4 December 2008
BISHKEK, 4 December 2008- Doing more to prevent the use of torture in law enforcement structures and raising awareness of human rights was the aim of a conference at the Kyrgyz Interior Ministry today...