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OSCE Centre in Bishkek trains customs officers on risk management and auditing
Publishing date: 19 September 2014
The OSCE Centre in Bishkek in joint co-operation with the Customs Service of Latvia on 19 September 2014 completed two weeks of a train-the-trainers programme for customs officers from Kyrgyzstan on risk management and auditing...
OSCE conducts training to the Kyrgyz police on religious extremism prevention
Publishing date: 20 August 2014
ISSYK-KUL, Kyrgyzstan, 20 August 2014 – The OSCE Police Matters Programme today launched a four-day training course in Issyk-Kul yesterday for 25 senior and junior staff of the public security departments under the Kyrgyz Ministry of Interior from Bishkek city, Chui, Naryn, Talas and Issyk-Kul regions on good practices in community policing and preventing religious conflict...
Role of community policing in countering radicalization highlighted in new guide by OSCE Community Security Initiative in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 31 July 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Countering terrorism, Policing
The Community Security Initiative (CSI) team in Kyrgyzstan on 31 July 2014 presented the OSCE-prepared guidebook on “Preventing Terrorism and Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalization that lead to Terrorism: A Community-Policing Approach”...
OSCE trains 25 Kyrgyz neighborhood inspectors on gender-sensitive policing
Publishing date: 17 July 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Gender equality, Policing
ISSYK-KUL, Kyrgyzstan, 17 July 2014 – The OSCE Police Matters Programme in co-operation with the Interior Ministry today launched a two-day training course in Issyk-Kul on gender-sensitive approaches to combatting domestic violence for 25 newly-hired neighborhood inspectors from the Chui, Naryn, Talas and Issyk-Kul regions of Kyrgyzstan...
OSCE and UNODC organize events in south Kyrgyzstan to improve public confidence in police
Publishing date: 30 June 2014
From 26 to 28 June 2014, the OSCE Center in Bishkek in co-operation with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) conducted a series of events in Batken, Osh and Jalal-Abad in the south of Kyrgyzstan to enhance public confidence in Kyrgyz police...
OSCE supports Kyrgyzstan’s Government on tackling crimes by juveniles
Publishing date: 13 June 2014
Poverty, drugs, alcohol and peer pressure are the factors behind a sharp rise in the number of youths committing crimes in Kyrgyzstan, concludes a survey co-produced by the Police Matters Programme of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and presented on 13 June 2014...
OSCE and Lithuanian experts sign agreement to support Kyrgyzstan police in combatting organized crime
Publishing date: 24 April 2014