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Officers in Uzbekistan sharpen skills for identifying suspected terrorists and other criminals at border crossings
Publishing date: 29 April 2024
Twenty border and customs officers in Uzbekistan sharpened their skills for identifying suspected foreign terrorist fighters and other criminals at border crossings during a national training course organized by the OSCE’s Border and Security Management Unit in close co-operation with the Government of Uzbekistan on 22 to 25 April 2024.
Open-source intelligence and online investigations in focus at OSCE training course for law enforcement in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 26 April 2024
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Policing
How to effectively use open-source intelligence and online investigations in law enforcement was the focus of an introductory training course in Tashkent organized by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department and the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan from 22 to 26 April 2024.
OCEEA and UNODC partner to train Armenia’s law enforcement agencies to investigate crypto-crimes
Publishing date: 26 April 2024
Content type: News
To enhance Armenia’s capacity to tackle crypto-related crimes, the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA), in partnership with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), gathered 27 representatives from various law enforcement agencies for a specialized training session on crypto-asset investigations from 24 to 26 April.
Women peacebuilders from across the OSCE region and Afghanistan gathered in Vienna for the second edition of the Women’s Peace Leadership Programme
Publishing date: 25 April 2024
On April 22, Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid welcomed mentees of the second edition of the OSCE Women’s Peace Leadership Programme, in Vienna. This high-level mentorship programme supporting women’s inclusion in peace and security at all levels will run from October 2023 to June 2024 and provide 16 women peacebuilders from across the OSCE region with extensive training on leadership, mediation and dialogue facilitation.
OSCE gathers youth, influencers and governmental practitioners in Tajikistan to discuss awareness raising on youth crime prevention
Publishing date: 24 April 2024
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Youth
On 23 and 24 April, the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department (TNTD) and the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA), in co-operation with the Programme Office in Dushanbe, held multi-stakeholder workshops with young people, influencers and governmental practitioners to discuss how to use social media as a platform to raise the awareness and resilience of young people on involvement in crime.
Regional expert-level conference on addressing the digital information disorder, terrorism and violent extremism concluded in Ulaanbaatar
Publishing date: 24 April 2024
To combat the “digital information disorder”, which refers to misinformation, disinformation, and malign information in the digital realm, the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, together with the National Counter-Terrorism Council of Mongolia (NCTC), organized a regional expert-level conference in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on 23 and 24 April: “Addressing the Prevailing Digital Information Disorder: Countering the Use of the Internet by Terrorists and Violent Extremists”.
OSCE helps strengthen police dog capabilities in Moldova
Publishing date: 22 April 2024
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
Participants of a roundtable meeting convened by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department (TNTD) on 18 April 2024 have begun devising a new master plan for comprehensive police dog (K9) services at the General Police Inspectorate of Moldova (GPI).