In June, the ATU financially supported the project KALKAN meeting, organized by the
INTERPOL in Domodedovo, Russia. The meeting was devoted to criminal investigations of
terrorist cases and related law enforcement co-operation.
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3.2
Operations Service / Borders Team in the Conflict Prevention Centre
Background
The CPC OS/Borders Team is the primary point of contact in the Secretariat for all border
security and management related issues. The CPC OS/Borders Team is responsible for
co-ordinating the OSCE’s response to requests from participating States on this subject and
maintaining the OSCE Border Security and Management National Focal Point (NFP)
network.
In 2010, five professional staff members of the OS/Borders Team were directly involved in
focusing on capacity-building activities concerned with combating drug trafficking, forged
documents, trafficking in human beings and other major cross-border crimes relevant to the
border security and management of OSCE participating States.
Travel Document Security
From 22 to 26 March, the OS/Borders Team, in co-operation with the ATU and the Centre in
Ashgabat, co-organized a training course on “Increasing Operational Awareness to Detect
Forged Documents” for Turkmen border control officers in Turkmenistan’s Mary Province
(see also 3.1).
From 5 to 9 July, the OS/Borders Team, in co-operation with the ATU, organized a seminar
on “Border Control – Detection of Forged Documents and Traveller Profiling” at the OSCE
Border Management Staff College (BMSC) in Dushanbe.
From 27 September until 8 October, the OS/Borders Team, in conjunction with the ATU,
delivered training on “Increasing Operational Awareness to Detect Forged Documents” for
Afghan Border Police Officers at the OSCE BMSC. Document Verification Kits were donated
by the OS/Border Team for the participants of the training. Support for this training was
provided by the European Union Police Mission in Afghanistan and the German Police
Project Team in Afghanistan.
From 4 to 9 October, the OS/Borders Team, in co-operation with the ATU, conducted a site
survey to Tajikistan in order to assess the available equipment, power and internet
infrastructure at ten border control points, which have been selected for the installation of the
INTERPOL database connection. In addition to the onsite visit, the Team met with various
Tajik officials to discuss the modalities of data sharing between agencies for entry/exit
records, police databases, domestic lost and stolen travel documents, and electronic
passports.
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