News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE training workshop on intelligence-led policing, advantages to contemporary policing in Uzbekistan, held in Tashkent
Publishing date: 9 May 2019
The OSCE-recommended model of intelligence-led policing (ILP) and its advantages for contemporary policing to the Uzbek Police, training workshop organized by the OSCE Secretariat, in co-operation with the OSCE Office of the Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, was held on 10 May 2019 in Tashkent...
Ukrainian delegation visits OSCE Secretariat and Austria’s Interior Ministry as part of project on combating human trafficking and smuggling of migrants
Publishing date: 8 May 2019
Representatives of Ukraine’s Ministry of Social Policy, the country’s Office of the Prosecutor General, the police and the State Service for Labour Issues visited the OSCE Secretariat and the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior on 7 and 8 May 2019 as part of an OSCE capacity-building project that aims to combat human trafficking and the smuggling of migrants...
OSCE supports training course for police crisis negotiators in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 19 April 2019
Strengthening the capacity of police crisis negotiators from across Kazakhstan was the focus of a five-day training course held from 15 to 19 April 2019 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. The event was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Karaganda...
OSCE supports law enforcement officers from Afghanistan in advancing their knowledge and skills in combating illicit drugs
Publishing date: 8 April 2019
Ten Afghan law enforcement officers completed a ten-day training course on 5 April 2019, which focused on combating illicit drug trafficking and drug-related crimes. The course, held at the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation was organized by the Strategic Police Matters Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department...
OSCE and Institute of Police Education at Swedish Linnaeus University conduct train-the-trainer course on effective responses to gender-based violence for Bulgarian, Hungarian and Romanian officials
Publishing date: 1 April 2019
A four-day train-the-trainer course on appropriate and effective responses to gender-based violence for officials from Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania was held from 25 to 29 March 2019, at the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL) Headquarters in Budapest, Hungary...
OSCE Mission to Serbia supports police’s capacity to fight corruption
Publishing date: 15 March 2019
The OSCE Mission to Serbia handed over IT equipment to the Interior Ministry’s Anti-corruption Department on the occasion of its first anniversary, on 15 March 2019. The donation will contribute to enhancing the technical capacity of the department to conduct efficient and effective investigations of economic crime and corruption...
Joining efforts to ensure successful police reform- OSCE and Tajikistan’s Interior Ministry hold donor co-ordination meeting
Publishing date: 13 March 2019
The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe and Tajikistan’s Interior Ministry held on 12 March 2019 in Dushanbe a roundtable discussion with high-level representatives of the international donor community to raise funds for the successful implementation of police reform in Tajikistan...