OSCE trains Tajik law enforcement officers on assessing threats at border

DUSHANBE, 10 October 2014 – Twenty-two mid-rank and front-line officers, including three women from Tajik law enforcement agencies, completed a two-week OSCE training course today in Dushanbe on assessing threats along the border.

During the course, officers from the Interior Ministry, Tajik Border Troops, the Customs Service and Drug Control Agency studied criminal intelligence, collection of information and searches, surveillance, threats posed by high-tech crime, and threat assessments at the border.

“Capacities of Tajik border and security agencies have to cope with changing border security risks and a professional and realistic threat assessment is the key element of an efficient border management," said Ambassador Markus Mueller, the Head of the OSCE Office in Tajikistan.

Flemming Hansen Splidsboel, Head of the OSCE Office’s Politico-Military Department, said: “This training course assisted Tajik border law enforcement agencies in strengthening their professional capacity in their day-to-day work in assessing threats at the border.”

The training course was implemented as part of the Tajik National Border Management Strategy and the OSCE Office in Tajikistan’s Border Management Unit’s activities this year.