OSCE Mission to Skopje supports Workshop to enhance capacity of the Common Contact Centres
Police officers from Common Contact Centres will meet at border crossing point with Bulgaria, Deve Bair, on 21 May 2015 to share experiences and enhance capacity on fighting organized crime.
The workshop is supported by the OSCE Mission to Skopje and aims at becoming a co-ordination tool to provide immediate updated information on crime trend at the border areas, as well as to analyse and share best practice and modus operandi from other countries, including European Union Member States.
In 2013, the Mission supported the establishment of the Common Contact Centre in Tabanovce, at the crossing point with Serbia, to strengthen and sustain the existing cross-border co-operation in order to exchange analytical and operational information to fight transnational organized crime.
In 2014, OSCE Mission to Skopje provided technical equipment as well as ad-hoc training for 16 Police officers, currently employed at the Centre established at Blace border crossing point.