OSCE Project Co-ordinator helps strengthen risk analysis system of Ukraine’s State Border Service

KYIV, 31 January 2012 – The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) today handed over IT equipment for 23 risk and criminal analysis units of the Ukraine's State Border Guard Service.

The donation is a part of a PCU-supported project to assist the Ukrainian Border Guard Service in increasing efficiency of its risk and criminal analysis systems.

"This equipment is just the beginning of our joint project with the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine,” said Ambassador Lubomir Kopaj, the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine. “We stand ready to train border officers from risk and criminal analysis units located along Ukrainian border."

“Equipping the field units will increase efficiency of the risk analysis system and help Ukrainian border guards to better address illegal migration, human trafficking and smuggling across the Ukrainian border,” said General of the Army, Mykola Lytvyn, the Chairperson of the State Border Guard Service.

“A modern border management organization must be able to predict unique challenges posed by today’s world, and respond to them in a timely manner,” said U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, John Tefft. “This project is a good example of how international co-operation can assist the Border Guard Service in better accomplishing its mission of securing Ukraine's borders.”

This part of the project was implemented with support from the United States, and in co-ordination with the Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine, the European Union Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine, and the International Organization for Migration.