News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Presence in Albania organizes regional meeting in support of police canine units in Western Balkans
Publishing date: 28 February 2023
From 22 to 24 February 2023, the OSCE Presence in Albania hosted a regional expert meeting on advancing the regulatory framework of police canine units, in Korça. The event brought together representatives of such units from Tirana, Sarajevo, Podgorica, Belgrade, Skopje, Pristina, and canine
OSCE Mission to Montenegro supports Police Directorate and its Forensic Centre in fight against serious and organized crime
Publishing date: 22 February 2023
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro continues to support of the Police Directorate in its fight against cyber and organised crime. On 21 February, Dominique Waag, Head of the Mission, and Zoran Brđanin, Police Director signed an agreement providing equipment and software which will enhance the investigative capacity of the Cybercrime/Intelligence Unit and the Forensic Centre to counter serious and organized crime.
Workshops on ILP principles, requirements and benefits take place throughout BiH
Publishing date: 16 February 2023
As part of the OSCE Mission to BiH project Enhancing of Intelligence-led Policing to Combat Serious Security Threats and Crimes (ILP Project), over the past four weeks the Mission organized both a workshop for senior managers of all law enforcement agencies (LEAs) in BiH and ten workshops for operational staff of the State Investigation and Protection Agency, BiH Border Police, BiH Directorate for Co-ordination of Police Bodies, Service for Foreigners’ Affairs, Indirect Taxation Authority, Brčko District Police, Police Administration of the Federation of BiH, and the police administrations of ministries of interior of nine cantons: Una-Sana; Posavina; Tuzla; Zenica-Doboj; Bosnian-Podrinje; Central Bosnia; Herzegovina-Neretva; West Herzegovina; and Canton 10.
Enhancing social re-use of confiscated assets in Serbia focus of OSCE workshop
Publishing date: 25 January 2023
On 24 January, the OSCE organized the third National Workshop on Social Re-use of Confiscated Assets in Serbia. The event brought together representatives from the Ministry of Justice, the Republic’s Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime, civil society and other international organizations.
OSCE facilitates exchange on asset recovery between German Federal Criminal Police Office and Serbian Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime
Publishing date: 25 January 2023
Prosecutors working on organized crime and asset recovery cases in Serbia and a judge from the Belgrade High Court visited the German Federal Criminal Police Office in Wiesbaden for a study visit on 24 and 25 January.
OSCE Presence organizes exchange visit to Serbia for Albanian journalist covering security and small and light weapons
Publishing date: 23 December 2022
Ten journalists covering security and small and light weapons (SALW) issues from different media outlets in Albania travelled to Belgrade from 19 to 22 December 2022 to learn from the best regional practices and share experience with Serbian colleagues. Representatives from the Albanian Ministry of
OSCE completes training of trainer on identifying false documents and impostors in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 16 December 2022
On 5-16 December 2022, the Border Security and Management Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department (TNTD), in close co-operation with the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina organized a two-week train-the-trainers course on identifying forged documents and impostors at border crossing points with the use of specialised equipment in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.