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OSCE Centre in Bishkek hands over video conference equipment to Kyrgyz State Border Service
Publishing date: 23 July 2015
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Border management, Countering terrorism
The OSCE Centre in Bishkek handed over the equipment used for the video conference to the Kyrgyz State Border Service. The ceremony was held during the simulation exercise “Bogot-Barrier 2015” conducted in the headquarters of the Kyrgyz border troops in Bishkek on 22 July 2015...
OSCE Centre and Kyrgyz State Custom Service agree to establish training centre for Kyrgyz and Afghani custom officers
Publishing date: 9 September 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Border management, Countering terrorism
The OSCE Centre and the State Customs Service (SCS) of the Kyrgyz Republic signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Bishkek, on 9 September 2013, on establishing a training centre for Kyrgyzstan’s and Afghanistan’s customs officers...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek trains border officials on travel document security
Publishing date: 11 November 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Border management, Countering terrorism
NOVOPOKROVKA, Kyrgyzstan, 11 November 2011- An OSCE-sponsored training course on travel document security was completed in the Novopokrovka Border Troops Training Centre near Bishkek today...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek holds joint training for Afghan and Kyrgyz customs officers
Publishing date: 27 April 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Border management, Countering terrorism, Policing, Rule of law
The OSCE Centre in Bishkek held training sessions on vehicle and container searches and border operations for Kyrgyz and Afghan customs officers at the customs point Ak-Jol on the Kyrgyz-Kazakh border. Twenty participants from Afghanistan, including three trainers, together with customs instructors from the Training Centre of the State Customs Service of Kyrgyzstan as well as customs officers working at Ak-Jol border point, attended the course...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports training border officers to use Interpol database
Publishing date: 19 December 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Border management, Countering terrorism, Policing
BISHKEK, 20 December 2010- A training course for Kyrgyz border troops officers from remote border checkpoints in south Kyrgyzstan on the practical use of the Interpol database, organized by the Interpol National Central Bureau with the support of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, started today in Bishkek...
OSCE Centre organizes course for Kyrgyz Border Service on detecting false IDs
Publishing date: 12 December 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Border management, Countering terrorism, Policing
BISHKEK, 12 December 2008- Eighteen Border Service officers completed a training course on identifying counterfeit ID documents in Bishkek today...
OSCE evaluates Kyrgyzstan's system for lost and stolen ID documents
Publishing date: 25 November 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Border management, Countering terrorism, Rule of law
BISHKEK, 26 November 2008- Assessing Kyrgyzstan's law enforcement system for lost and stolen identification documents and identifying measures needed for the country to join Interpol's database was the purpose of an OSCE-supported technical...