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OSCE continues training on digital forensics in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 10 November 2023
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
From 6 to 11 November, the OSCE Transnational Threats Department (TNTD) and the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat delivered the second part of an introductory course on digital forensics for law enforcement representatives from Turkmenistan.
OSCE Engages Kyrgyzstan's Students in Joint Effort Against Drugs
Publishing date: 10 November 2023
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Border management, Countering terrorism
On November 10, 2023, within the framework of the implementation of the Anti-Drug Programme by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic, the Service for Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MoI) of the Kyrgyz Republic, in collaboration with the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, convened a roundtable discussion for students of the Faculty of Law at the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University. The focal theme of the discussion was "Prevention of Drug Use Among Young People."
Learning by doing- anti-trafficking practitioners across the Baltic Sea region take part in week-long regional simulation training
Publishing date: 10 November 2023
Content type: News
Where we are: Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
More than 50 professionals from five countries participated in a week-long simulation-based training exercise on combating trafficking in human beings in Brühl, Germany this week, marking the first such regional training between the OSCE and the Council of Baltic Sea States.
OSCE Mission to Montenegro, together with Ministry of Interior, launches a reflection about a reform on high education for police officers
Publishing date: 10 November 2023
On 8 and 9 November, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro and the Ministry of Interior organized an international conference in Budva that brought together representatives from the Ministry, Police Directorate, Police Academy and University of Montenegro. Five higher education institutions from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, Serbia and Slovenia were invited and presented their educational models in creating an institution that could grant a university degree for police officers.
OSCE and US OPDAT deliver workshop on advanced regional asset recovery in South-Eastern Europe
Publishing date: 9 November 2023
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
The OSCE Transnational Threats Department, the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities and the United States Department of Justice, Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (US OPDAT) facilitated an advanced interactive workshop for prosecutors and judges from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia on recovery of illicit assets, including cross-border organized crime cases. Prosecutors and judges from Kosovo also attended.
OSCE facilitates workshop on confiscated criminal assets management in Moldova
Publishing date: 9 November 2023
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
How do state agencies effectively manage businesses, real estate, securities, and financial instruments seized from organized crime groups? How do they ensure that their value does not depreciate by the end of lengthy court proceedings, and that they do not become a liability to the seizing authority? These are some of the questions tackled during an OSCE-facilitated workshop on the effective management of seized and confiscated criminal assets that took place in Moldova this week.
OSCE seminar discusses development of small and medium enterprises in the field of agriculture in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 9 November 2023
An OSCE-organized two-day seminar on the development of small and medium enterprises (SMES) in the field of agriculture took place on 8 and 9 November 2023 in Ashgabat. The event addressed the role of SMEs in the rural development and ensuring food security and highlighted best practices of the