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OSCE Secretariat and EU Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL) sign agreement on mutual co-operation
Publishing date: 3 July 2017
Senior officials from the OSCE Secretariat and the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL) signed a document on 3 July 2017 in Vienna to strengthen mutual co-operation with the aim of enhancing the capacities of law enforcement in the fight against transnational threats, including serious and organized crime...
OSCE supports training of cybercrime and digital forensics investigators from Azerbaijan and Georgia on using the Python programming language in investigations
Publishing date: 7 June 2017
A five-day regional training course for 16 cybercrime and digital forensics investigators from Azerbaijan and Georgia focusing on using the Python programming language for the retrieval of digital evidence, started on 5 June 2017 in Tbilisi...
OSCE’s project on intelligence-led policing presented on margins of UNODC’s annual Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Vienna
Publishing date: 24 May 2017
The Strategic Police Matters Unit (SPMU) of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department introduced the OSCE’s project on intelligence-led policing at a side event of UNODC’s annual Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Vienna on 25 May 2017. The event was organized in co-operation with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)...
OSCE Secretariat and INTERPOL launch joint action plan to combat transnational crime
Publishing date: 17 May 2017
ST JOHANN IM PONGAU, Austria, 17 May 2017 – A new joint action plan between the OSCE Secretariat and INTERPOL will lead to increased collaboration between the two bodies to combat transnational threats, including organized crime and terrorism...
OSCE supports co-operation among Eastern European law enforcement agencies in countering spread of new psychoactive substances facilitated by ‘Darknet’ and cryptocurrencies
Publishing date: 16 May 2017
More than 20 representatives of law enforcement agencies from Belarus, Moldova and the Russian Federation began a five-day training course co-organized by the OSCE in Minsk on 15 May 2017 on developing co-operation among law enforcement agencies in combating the spread of new psychoactive substances (NPS) facilitated by the so-called ‘Darknet’...
OSCE trains cybercrime investigators from Georgia and Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 27 March 2017
A five-day regional training course for 14 cybercrime and digital forensics investigators from Azerbaijan and Georgia focusing on investigating malware started on 27 March 2017 in Tbilisi. The course is organized by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department’s Strategic Police Matters Unit with the support of the Georgia Internal Affairs Ministry and its Academy...
OSCE Secretary General briefs 60th session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs
Publishing date: 17 March 2017
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier briefed the 60th session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) on 14 March 2017 in Vienna, highlighting the OSCE’s activities in tackling the world drug problem...