OSCE organizes final training courses in Ukraine on detecting forged travel documents

CHERKASY, Ukraine, 2 May 2016 – Two six-day training courses for Ukrainian border control officers aimed at increasing their operational awareness to recognize original, forged and false documents, and in using forensic equipment to identify document forgery, started today in Cherkasy.

The two back-to-back courses are taking place from 2-7 and 9-15 May at Ukraine’s Border Management College for some 47 border control officers and 12 national trainers from the country. They will be conducted by Ukrainian national officers under the supervision of Austrian document experts.

As a follow-up to the train-the-trainer course conducted earlier this year, these training courses will provide in-depth knowledge about the manufacturing process of forged travel documents, as well as the latest trends in counterfeiting methods and means of identifying them.

These two training courses are the final instalments in a series of six courses and aim to build on the existing skills of Ukrainian officers in detecting forged travel documents by disseminating knowledge on document security features and the various frameworks of visa regimes.

The courses are organized by the OSCE Secretariat's Transnational Threats Department, in co-operation with the International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) of the US Department of Justice.