Afghan border police and Tajik border guards complete OSCE Patrol Management and Analysis course
DUSHANBE, 4 October 2013 – Twelve Tajik border troops guards and twelve Afghan border police officers graduated today from a three-week Patrol Management and Analysis Course.
The three-week training course was focused on tactical patrolling, and management and analysis for operational planning in action. A mock exercise helped to refine real-time joint operational planning techniques, co-operation and co-ordination between the two services. As part of the training, sessions on gender sensitive policing and treatment of criminals and victims were delivered by experts from the OSCE Office in Tajikistan and the Turkish National Police.
During the graduation ceremony, Hans Peter Larsen, the Deputy Head of the OSCE Office in Tajikistan said: "The Office in Tajikistan will continue to train Afghan and Tajik border guards in the upcoming critical period facing 2014. This will help ensure that both border services have sufficient capacity to cope with the challenges of transnational organized crime, terrorism, and the drug trade."
Colonel Zamaniddin Zaman, Deputy Defence Attaché of the Afghan Embassy in Tajikistan attending the ceremony added: "The work of the OSCE plays and important role in raising the professional capabilities of the Tajik and Afghan side and promoting cross-border co-operation. Effective joint work on all levels including the tactical one is the best way to prevent and stop all kinds of criminal activities that we are facing on the common border line.” The ceremony was also attended by representatives of Tajik Border Troops.
The course is part of the Patrol Programming and Leadership Project, aimed at enhancing the capacities of Tajikistan’s border troops and Afghanistan’s border police to detect and interdict illegal cross-border movement.