Border management

Tajikistan faces a number of issues related to border security, including drug smuggling and human trafficking. The Programme Office trains Tajik, Kyrgyz and Afghan border officials to detect and intercept illegal border movements and helps them to develop information sharing systems which will ease border crossing and enhance border control. A major asset in this vital work is the Border Management College, established by the Programme Office in 2009, in Dushanbe. As one of the OSCE’s flagship projects, it enables the 57 participating States and 11 Partners for Co-operation to train their border security officers and management officials at the College. Its annual core courses cover three one-month Staff Courses, one of which is dedicated to female border officials, and a one-year Postgraduate Diploma in Border Security and Management for Senior Leadership course, which is accredited within the EU.