News and press releases

MINSK, 28 January 2014 – Helping police to better respond to cases of domestic violence was the focus of a two-day OSCE regional workshop, which opened in Minsk today, for members of community police from Belarus and Moldova...

At an event in Podgorica on 27 December 2013, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro presented the report “Anti-corruption Mechanisms and Accountability of Police Officers in Montenegro”. The report was prepared under a project implemented with the Centre for Democracy and Human Rights, an NGO. It concluded that while much has been achieved through new laws and by creating institutional mechanisms, tangible results in terms of the accountability of police officers are still pending...

The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan organized from 11 to 15 November 2013 a study visit to Austria for representatives of Uzbek law enforcement agencies, to learn best practices in tackling drug trafficking.

The OSCE Office in Tajikistan facilitated a three-day expert operational meeting from 27 to 29 November 2013 aimed at aligning the Police Reform Programme and Action Plan with the National Police Reform Strategy of Tajikistan...

A new manual for law enforcement officers on protecting and respecting human rights during counter-terrorism investigations was launched by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE Secretariat’s Transnational Threats Department/Strategic Police Matters Unit in Vienna on 29 November 2013...

ODIHR launched a training programme to help Montenegrin law-enforcement officers better recognize, understand and investigate hate crimes with a three-day course that ended on 29 November 2013 in Podgorica...

ANKARA, 30 November 2013 – High level representatives of law-enforcement bodies and the National Red Crescent Society of Turkmenistan discussed best practices in prison management during an OSCE-supported working visit to Turkey that concluded in Ankara today...