News and press releases

SOLAK, Armenia, 7 November 2013 – Schoolchildren from Solak village are learning about the work of the police at a two-day OSCE-supported event launched today in Kotayq region.

SKOPJE, 6 November 2013 – Enhancing implementation of accountable and transparent internal oversight mechanisms within the police is the aim of an OSCE-supported regional conference that started in Skopje today...

A neighborhood inspector’s office opened with the OSCE support in Kok-Art micro district of Kyrgyzstan’s southern city of Jalal-Abad on 1 November 2013. The project was proposed and supported by the local community to counteract a recent surge in the number of car thefts in the area with some 30,000 residents...

YEREVAN, 31 October 2013 – Police reforms, fight against corruption and building integrity and accountability in policing are the topics of a discussion organized in Yerevan today...

A project organised jointly by the OSCE, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the International Organization for Migration, to map the links between irregular migration, migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings along the East Mediterranean Migration Route, began with a seminar in Vienna on 30 and 31 October 2013.

ASTANA, 25 October 2013 – An OSCE-supported train-the-trainers seminar aimed at enhancing knowledge and skills of police schools instructors to teach about human rights matters took place today in Astana...

Experts in policing from the OSCE region meet in Vienna from 24 to 25 October 2013 to identify how to build on present practice to best tackle criminal threats to security despite the economic downturn...