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OSCE launches online training on mainstreaming gender in the security sector
Publishing date: 11 October 2018
At an event on 10 and 11 October in Vienna, the Border Security and Management Unit of the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department launched an online training course on mainstreaming gender in the security sector.
OSCE organizes regional workshop on combating illicit cross-border trafficking in cultural property in Montenegro
Publishing date: 5 October 2018
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Montenegro
What we do: Border management, Policing
PODGORICA, 5 October 2018 – More than 50 participants from police, border and customs services, and the Ministries of Justice and Culture from South-east Europe and the Caucasus completed a five-day workshop in Podgorica today on combating illicit cross-border trafficking in cultural property...
OSCE helps law enforcement authorities in Moldova to establish Advance Passenger Information system
Publishing date: 12 July 2018
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Border management, Countering terrorism
A workshop on how to set up an Advance Passenger Information (API) system in Moldova was organized by the Border Security and Management Unit (BSMU) of the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department (TNTD) from 10 to 12 July in Chisinau. The aim of establishing an API system is to better regulate exit, entry, and transit of air passengers.
OSCE Mobile Training Team conducts course on identifying foreign terrorist fighters for border and security officers in Skopje
Publishing date: 5 July 2018
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Border management, Countering terrorism
From 3 to 5 July 2018 the OSCE Mobile Training Team delivered in Skopje an interactive course on identifying foreign terrorist fighters for country’s 24 border and security services officers...
OSCE organizes intensive training course on border management for its Mediterranean Points of Contact Network in Malta
Publishing date: 29 June 2018
Members of the OSCE Mediterranean Points of Contact Network on border security and management completed an intensive and interactive five-day training course on various topics related to their work on 29 June 2018 at the headquarters of the Malta Police Force in Floriana...
OSCE trains Montenegrin airport border and customs officers on detecting forged documents and imposters
Publishing date: 22 June 2018
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Montenegro
What we do: Border management, Countering terrorism
A two-and-a-half day training course on detecting forged documents and imposters concluded on 22 June 2018 for 15 first- and second-line border and customs officers from Montenegro’s international airports. The course, held at Podgorica’s airport, was organized by the Border Security and Management Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, in co-operation with the OSCE Mission to Montenegro...
OSCE assists law enforcement authorities in setting up an Advance Passenger Information System in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 15 June 2018
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Border management, Countering terrorism
The Border Security and Management Unit (BSMU) of the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department, in close co-operation with the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, organized a workshop on establishing an Advance Passenger Information (API) system in Uzbekistan from 13 to 14 June. The event was aimed at detecting and preventing the movement of foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs), particularly those returning or relocating from conflict zones.