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OSCE and Interpol discuss deepening co-operation to counter transnational threats
Publishing date: 26 March 2013
The Director of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, Alexey Lyzhenkov, met Jean-Michel Louboutin, the Executive Director Police Services of Interpol in Lyon on 26 March 2013 and discussed co-operation between the OSCE and Interpol...
OSCE meeting in Istanbul ends with call for effective human rights education for law enforcement officials
Publishing date: 11 December 2012
Content type: News
What we do: Human rights, Policing
Police agencies should do more to provide systemic and effective human rights education for its personnel, said participants at a meeting held in Istanbul by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Strategic Police Matters Unit (SPMU) of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, with the support of the Turkish National Police, on 10 and 11 December 2012...
Fighting illicit drug supply to young people focus of OSCE conference in Vienna
Publishing date: 18 October 2012
VIENNA, 18 October 2012- Cutting the supply of illicit drugs to young people is the focus of an OSCE-organized conference which started in Vienna today...
Cybercrime focus of annual OSCE police experts meeting
Publishing date: 19 September 2012
VIENNA, 20 September 2012- Experts from academia, the private sector and criminal justice bodies will discuss ways to fight cybercrime at the OSCE’s annual police experts meeting which started in Vienna today...
OSCE trains police in targeting illicit proceeds of human trafficking
Publishing date: 20 July 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Policing
PRAGUE, 20 July 2012 – A three-day OSCE training seminar for police and financial investigators in how to identify, seize and confiscate criminal assets arising from human trafficking concluded today in Prague...
New OSCE department for transnational threats established
Publishing date: 12 January 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General
What we do: Border management, Countering terrorism, Policing
With the beginning of 2012, a new department has been established that will improve the OSCE’s work on combating transnational threats (TNT), OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier announced on 10 January 2012...
OSCE-supported Association of Women Police in Kyrgyzstan celebrates its first anniversary
Publishing date: 20 October 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Gender equality, Policing