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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Criminal intelligence focus of OSCE Mission to Montenegro-supported workshop held in Podgorica
Publishing date: 9 October 2019
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro, in co-operation with the Police Directorate’s Criminal Intelligence Division and the Department for Analytics and Development of the Police, organized a two-day workshop on 7 and 8 October 2019 in Podgorica...
OSCE and Tajikistan’s Interior Ministry bring police and community together to fight crime
Publishing date: 9 October 2019
Representatives of Tajikistan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and members of Public Councils on Police Reform (PC) met to discuss community policing as a joint fight against crime. The roundtable discussion was conducted on 4 October 2019 in Guliston, the Sughd region. It was supported by the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe and the International Organization Saferworld. Some 110 participants, including staff of MIA and representatives of national and international organizations participated in the event.
Law enforcement agencies should embrace Artificial Intelligence to enhance their efficiency and effectiveness, say police experts at OSCE meeting
Publishing date: 23 September 2019
VIENNA, 23 September 2019- Law enforcement authorities and agencies should embrace Artificial Intelligence (AI) in their work to increase their efficiency and effectiveness, and to keep up with technological innovations, said opening speakers at the 2019 OSCE Annual Police Experts Meeting in Vienna today. This technology must be used in strict compliance with human rights and fundamental freedoms, they added...
OSCE holds interagency simulation exercise for crisis negotiators in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 20 September 2019
Strengthening the capacity of crisis negotiators from across Kazakhstan was the focus of an interagency simulation exercise conducted on 20 September 2019 in Nur-Sultan...
OSCE trains Tajik police and drug control officers on effective project management
Publishing date: 17 September 2019
Representatives of Tajikistan’s Interior Ministry (MIA) and Drug Control Agency (DCA) learned how to successfully manage projects and raise funds to implement reforms in their agencies at a training course in Dushanbe. The course was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe and took place from 26 August to 13 September 2019. It brought together mid- to senior-ranking officers from different departments of the MIA and the DCA...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro donates forensic equipment to national Forensic Centre
Publishing date: 11 September 2019
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro donated forensic equipment valued at €33,700 to the Forensic Centre in Danilovgrad on 11 September 2019...
OSCE presents community policing approach in multi-ethnic society in Nur-Sultan
Publishing date: 5 September 2019
On 3 September 2019, some 40 representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakh-stan, police, NGOs and representatives of the diplomatic corps participated in an event on inclusive and effective community policing in multi-ethnic societies. The event took place in the framework of the visit to Kazakhstan of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Mi-norities, Lamberto Zannier.