News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Strategic and innovative approaches to reducing supply and demand of illicit drugs focus of 2018 OSCE-wide anti-drugs conference in Vienna
Publishing date: 16 July 2018
VIENNA, 16 July 2018 – The effectiveness of current drug control policies and strategic and innovative approaches to reducing the supply and demand of illicit drugs are the focus of the two-day OSCE-wide anti-drugs conference that opened in Vienna today. The conference brings together some 130 representatives of OSCE participating States and OSCE Partners for Co-operation...
OSCE Police Academies Network launched to strengthen police training and co-operation
Publishing date: 29 June 2018
To promote and support international police training and co-operation, the OSCE Police Academies Network (PAN) was established in Vienna on 29 June 2018 as an outcome of a project developed by the Strategic Police Matters Unit at the Transnational Threats Department...
Border guard training on detection of forged documents supported by OSCE in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 29 June 2018
A five-day OSCE-supported training seminar on the detection of forged travel documents and identification techniques concluded in Aktau, Kazakhstan on 29 June 2018...
Safety of journalists during critical events focus of OSCE Mission to Skopje, Internal Affairs Ministry and Journalists’ Association workshop with journalists and police officers
Publishing date: 12 June 2018
SKOPJE, 12 June 2018 – Improving the safety of journalists during critical events was the focus of an OSCE-supported workshop today in Skopje, which brought together some 20 journalists and police officers...
Fighting drug smugglers more efficiently: OSCE works with Council of Europe and partners to produce new online tool for drug enforcement agencies
Publishing date: 6 June 2018
A new OSCE-supported online tool, a handbook designed to help drug enforcement officials to increase the number of arrests of drug smugglers, was launched at the premises of the Council of Europe on 6 June 2018 in Strasbourg, France...
OSCE promotes co-operation among Eastern European law enforcement agencies in digital forensics and network investigations in combating drug-related and other crimes
Publishing date: 5 June 2018
Some 20 representatives of law enforcement agencies from Belarus and the Russian Federation began an OSCE Secretariat-organized five-day training course, from 4 to 9 June 2018 in Minsk, on developing co-operation among law enforcement agencies in digital forensics and network investigations in combating drug-related and other crimes...
Management of Contemporary Security Systems focus of OSCE seminar in Podgorica
Publishing date: 18 May 2018
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro and the Police Academy of Montenegro held a three-day seminar on the management of contemporary security systems, police leadership qualities, from 14 to 16 May 2018 in Podgorica...