News and press releases

ASTANA, 11 December 2014- An OSCE-supported two-day training seminar for police officers on best practices in managing public assemblies began today in Astana...

The “Active citizenry” project aiming to strengthen effective co-operation mechanisms between the local authorities, citizens and the police in the country’s northern borderline area ended in Lipkovo municipality, Kumanovo, on 10 December 2014...

The OSCE Presence in Albania on 4 December 2014 donated a range of academic books to the Albanian Police Academy. The recently-published books on criminology, psychology, criminal law, criminal procedure and other topics of interest for the law enforcement community will form the nucleus of the library of the Academy’s soon-to-be-established police higher education institution...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 3 December 2014- Representatives of law enforcement agencies from Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, are meeting on 4 and 5 December in Almaty to discuss issues of co-operation in fighting drugs and the exchange of information on drug traffickers and drug supply routes...

A workshop for police professionals from Serbia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Montenegro on using operational analysis as a tool for successfully disrupting organized criminal groups, took place in Belgrade on 25 November...

The OSCE Mission to Skopje and the Interior Ministry hosted a regional conference in Skopje from 27 to 28 November 2014, raising awareness among relevant actors from Criminal Justice System on the need for holistic police reform...

The OSCE Centre in Astana supported a meeting of the Law Enforcement Co-ordination Council dedicated to the application of administrative sanctions that was held on 27 November 2014 in Astana, Kazakhstan...