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OSCE POLIS platform now in French
Publishing date: 11 December 2008
VIENNA, 11 December 2008- The OSCE web platform for law enforcement professionals, POLIS, is now available in French...
OSCE launches channel on YouTube
Publishing date: 27 November 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Arms control, Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Economic activities, Border management, Environmental activities, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Education, Elections, Countering terrorism, Gender equality, Media freedom and development, National minority issues, Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector, Roma and Sinti, Rule of law, Tolerance and non-discrimination
VIENNA, 27 November 2008- The OSCE today launched its own channel on the popular video-sharing website YouTube...
Fifth anniversary of OSCE Police Reform Programme in Kyrgyzstan marked with conference
Publishing date: 22 November 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
BISHKEK, 22 November 2008- Almost 100 officials participated in a conference today that marked the fifth anniversary of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek's Police Reform Programme. The Interior Ministry and the OSCE Centre co-organized the event...
OSCE holds regional workshop on combating illicit drugs trafficking in Central Asia
Publishing date: 20 November 2008
TASHKENT, 20 November 2008- Improving co-operation among the national stakeholders in Central Asia to prevent and investigate drug trafficking, and exchanging intelligence information is the purpose of a regional workshop that opened in Tashkent today...
OSCE promotes democratic policing in Central Asia
Publishing date: 13 November 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
ALMATY, 13 November 2008- Assisting OSCE participating States in Central Asia to put the Organization's guidelines on democratic policing into practice is the focus of a roundtable discussion that opened in Almaty today...
Afghan police officers graduate from OSCE-organized counter-narcotics course
Publishing date: 10 November 2008
VIENNA, 10 December 2008- Twelve Afghan police officers graduated today from a drugs-fighting training course, organized by the OSCE with the International Drugs-fighting Training Centre in Domodedovo, outside Moscow...
OSCE presents guide on police training
Publishing date: 31 October 2008
VIENNA, 31 October 2008- The OSCE's Strategic Police Matters Unit presented a new guide on basic police training in Vienna today, on the final day of its annual Police Experts Meeting...