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OSCE and UN Office on Drugs and Crime deliver online train-the-trainer course to enhance Albania’s capacities to financially disrupt terrorist networks
Publishing date: 13 November 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism, Policing
The OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department’s Action against Terrorism Unit, in co-operation with the OSCE Presence in Albania and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) organized an online train-the-trainer course from 11 to 13 November 2020, with the aim of further strengthening Albania’s capacities in countering the financing of terrorism...
OSCE Presence organizes crime analysis training course for Albanian State Police
Publishing date: 23 October 2020
A training course on the concepts and techniques of crime analysis for the Albanian State Police, organized by the OSCE Presence in Albania, was held from 20 to 23 October 2020 in Tirana...
OSCE Presence trains academic staff of first-ever Master’s Programme in Criminology in Albania
Publishing date: 28 September 2020
The OSCE Presence in Albania, together with the Faculties of Law and of Social Sciences of the University of Tirana, organized a training course from 22 to 25 September 2020, for academic staff of the new Master’s Programme in Criminology. The Master’s programme, which will start this academic year, is the first of its kind in Albania. The OSCE Presence in Albania initiated the programme as part of a project financially supported by the United States Mission to OSCE...
OSCE Presence trains Albania’s police on drug investigation
Publishing date: 25 September 2020
The OSCE Presence in Albania organized a course on drug investigation for fifteen officers from the Albanian State Police Anti-Drug Units from 22 to 25 September 2020. The course aimed at enhancing the State Police’s capacity to dismantle organized crime groups specialized in drug trafficking, through increasing their knowledge of the new ways criminal chains operate...
OSCE Presence in Albania holds activities in support of Master’s Programme in Criminology establishment at Law Faculty in Tirana
Publishing date: 2 June 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
What we do: Economic activities, Education, Policing, Rule of law
On 28 and 29 May 2020 in Tirana, the OSCE Presence in Albania, in co-operation with the Law Faculty at the University of Tirana, organized a workshop with the academic staff of the new Master Programme in Criminology, aimed to improve capacities of professionals, academics and policy-makers to identify root causes of crime...
OSCE Presence donates personal protection equipment to Albania’s Border Police
Publishing date: 29 May 2020
At the imminent opening of Albania’s borders, the OSCE Presence, on 28 May 2020 in Tirana, donated personal protection equipment against COVID-19, worth 20,000 euro, to Albania’s Border Police...
OSCE/ODIHR trains Albanian counter-terrorism police officers on protecting human rights in fight against terrorism
Publishing date: 22 November 2017
Content type: News
What we do: Human rights, Countering terrorism, Policing
Enhancing the ability to respect human rights while countering terrorism was the aim of a training course organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) for 22 officers from the Albanian State Police Counter-Terrorism Directorate in Tirana on 21 and 22 November