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OSCE launches project on increasing and supporting participation of women at all levels of policing with pilot activities in Montenegro
Publishing date: 27 July 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Montenegro, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Gender equality, Policing
The OSCE launched a new project on 24 July 2020 aimed at increasing and supporting the participation of women at all levels of policing, with the first pilot activities taking place in Montenegro. The project was developed to raise awareness at policy and police levels about the under-representation of women in the police across the OSCE area...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro supports drafting of the Police Strategy
Publishing date: 3 July 2020
To support the drafting of the new 2021-2024 Police Development Strategy and the 2021-2022 Action Plan, on 2 and 3 July 2020 in Bečići, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro facilitated a series of four working sessions, with 38 officials of the Interior Ministry and Police Directorate, to develop these strategic documents...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro donates forensic equipment to the Police Directorate
Publishing date: 3 July 2020
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro donated forensic equipment valued at €51,982 to the country's Forensic Centre and the Cyber Crime Unit within the Police Directorate on 3 July 2020...
OSCE-supported training for the Forensic Centre of Montenegro
Publishing date: 30 December 2019
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro has supported the Forensic Centre of the Police Directorate in Danilovgrad since its inception in 2008, to receive accreditation as a fully-fledged member of the European Network of Forensic Science Institutions. In 2017, the European Commission upgraded the forensic standard for criminal investigations, which requires re-training the forensic centre to meet the new standard in 2020.
OSCE Mission to Montenegro supports regional meeting that examines challenges and threats posed by new psychoactive drugs
Publishing date: 29 November 2019
The emerging threat to the health and safety of society posed by new psychoactive drugs was the focus of a regional meeting organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, in co-operation with the country’s Ministry of Health and the Police Directorate, on 26 and 27 November 2019 in Podgorica...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro facilitated annual meeting of “Police Persons of Trust”
Publishing date: 14 November 2019
The annual meeting of ‘“Police Persons of Trust’”, organized by Montenegrin Police Directorate with the support of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, the Centre for Integrity in the Defence Sector (CIDS) from Norway and Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF), was held on 13 November 2019 in Podgorica...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro organizes workshop on security sector oversight for parliamentarians
Publishing date: 25 October 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Montenegro
What we do: Democratization, Good governance, Policing, Rule of law
Parliamentary oversight of the security sector was the topic of a two-day workshop organized in Podgorica by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro for members of the country’s parliament and parliamentary staff on 24 and 25 October 2019...