News and press releases

Some 40 officials from governmental institutions, law enforcement agencies and civil society associations attended the launch of a Community Policing Project in Karaganda on 27 November 2019. The project,which emphasizes the joint responsibility of the State and civilians in ensuring public security, is supported by the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan and Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs....

The Strategic Police Matters Unit of the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department (SPMU), in close co-operation with the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe, organized an introductory workshop on Intelligence-led policing (ILP) in Tajikistan’s capital on 26 November 2019. Some 28 senior representatives and managers from the country’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Anti-corruption Agency, the Drug Control Agency and the State Committee for National Security took part...

To mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25 November 2019, the Strategic Police Matters Unit of the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department (SPMU) is launching a regional awareness-raising campaign against gender-based violence in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania...

Good practices, challenges and lessons learned in law enforcement training and education, in particular with regard to the impact of modern technology and the role of women, is the focus of the second meeting of OSCE Police Academies Network (PAN), which brought together more than 40 participants to Vienna on 20 November 2019...

Representatives from Azerbaijan’s Government, the Council of Europe, Facebook, Microsoft, the Austrian Institute of Technology and Ordina Belgium, among others, participated in a workshop on how to enhance co-operation between the private and public sector to fight cybercrime on 19 November 2019 in Baku...

Policing public order based on democratic principles was the focus of a roundtable discussion organized by the Strategic Police Matters Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department in Yerevan on 14 November 2019 for 11 high-level Armenian police officers and five Members of Parliament from the Standing Committee on Defence and Security...

The annual meeting of ‘“Police Persons of Trust’”, organized by Montenegrin Police Directorate with the support of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, the Centre for Integrity in the Defence Sector (CIDS) from Norway and Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF), was held on 13 November 2019 in Podgorica...