OSCE concludes training series for Kazakhstan’s border service officers on risk profiling
The last in a series of six OSCE-supported five-day training courses on risk profiling at border checkpoints to assist eighteen officers of the Border Service of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee in countering transnational threats concluded in Kostanai, Kazakhstan on 4 August 2017.
The series was co-organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana, the United States Embassy in Kazakhstan and the Border Service of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee.
Experts from the Central Asian Regional Information Co-ordination Centre for Combating Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and their Precursors (CARICC) and the Association of Psychologists of Kazakhstan trained border guards in how to develop a system of risk profiling, employ statistical instruments to analyse information on criminal incidents and develop an actionable in-depth risk profile.
The training course also covered how to better understand a person’s verbal and non-verbal behaviour as well as ways to identify specific risk indicators. A number of practical exercises were conducted at the seminar and at the crossing point on the border with the Russian Federation, providing participants with the opportunity to apply their newly-acquired skills.
The event is part of the OSCE Programme Office’s activities aimed at enhancing the host country’s border security and promoting integrated border security management while countering transnational threats.