OSCE organizes training course for law enforcement and criminal justice officers in Turkmenistan

The OSCE Transnational Threats Department and the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat jointly organized the online training course “Utilizing i2 Analyst’s Notebook and i2 iBase in criminal intelligence analysis” from 14 to 17 December 2021.

Eleven law enforcement and criminal justice officers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Supreme Court of Turkmenistan examined the structure, functionality, and capabilities of two globally used software packages and explored how they can support and enable criminal intelligence analysis within the framework of the intelligence-led policing (ILP) model. 

“Good analytical support greatly enhances the quality of law enforcement operations and investigations. Thus, it plays a vital role in the process of moving from traditional reactive policing to proactive one, which is the goal of ILP. In the modern context, this requires special analytical software skills,” said Eduard Lokotunin, OSCE Police Affairs Officer on Combating Illicit Drugs and ILP Project Manager.

The training course was organized as part of the OSCE’s extra-budgetary project “Building intelligence-led policing capacities on regional and national levels in the OSCE area”, which aims to enhance the use of mechanisms and tools for intelligence-led policing. It involves 20 participating States from across the OSCE region. The project is open to all interested OSCE participating States and Partners for Co-operation should they request capacity-building support.