News and press releases

Capacity-building initiatives related to fighting cybercrime were the focus of a technical briefing held on 7 September 2021. The briefing was organized online and in-person by the OSCE in close co-operation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Cybercrime Programme Office of the Council of Europe (C-PROC) and INTERPOL.

Law enforcement representatives from the State Investigation and Protection Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina attended a five-day OSCE-supported online workshop on the use of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) for criminal and financial investigations, held from August 30 to September 3. Through practical and interactive sessions, participants gained knowledge on how to identify, gather and analyze quantitative and qualitative data that is publicly available on the internet.

The Strategic Police Matters Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, in co-operation with the six OSCE field operations in South-Eastern Europe and the Shortest Path Training Company, launched a set of online training courses focused on utilizing IBM’s i2 software packages Analyst’s Notebook and iBase in criminal intelligence analysis.

The OSCE organized a second workshop on social re-use of confiscated assets in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 29 June 2021. Representatives of asset management agencies and civil society organizations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as experts on social re-use of confiscated assets from international civil society organizations participated in the workshop.

Experiences and lessons learned when implementing intelligence-led policing (ILP) in South-Eastern Europe were the focus of a workshop organized online by the OSCE on 23 June 2021.

Criminal justice professionals in Albania took part in an OSCE-organized national workshop from 14 to 18 June 2021 to enhance their capacities to develop intelligence through open-source internet research.

From 14 to 18 June 2021, the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department’s Strategic Police Matters Unit and the Permanent Mission of Turkey to the OSCE organized an online training course for some 30 criminal justice practitioners from three OSCE participating States – Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan – focusing on countering transnational organized crime...