4.12 Programme Office in Nur-Sultan countering human trafficking, immigration and customs enforcement. The delegation saw the practical application of the information-sharing system at Heathrow Airport. The participants also met senior officials of the United Kingdom Home Office and discussed possible interagency co-operation and the next steps in promoting the exchange of passenger information at Kazakhstan’s border checkpoints. On 20 September, the Office attended a co-ordination meeting with the INL Department of the U.S. Embassy in Nur-Sultan and representatives of the BGS of the National Security Committee, the GPO, the Ministry of Justice, and the Committee for Civil Aviation of the Investment and Development Ministry, to discuss further steps to support efforts to develop an API system. Customs officers from New Zealand shared, via teleconference, best practices from their eight years of experience in using similar systems. The Office and the INL discussed ways in which both entities could cooperate to provide support to the host country in this area, taking into account feedback received from the participants. From 15 to 19 October, the Office co-organized a five-day practical training course on risk profiling to better counter transnational threats in Zharkent, near the border with China. Nineteen Border Service officers took part in a training seminar co-organized by the Office together with the INL Department of the U.S. Embassy in Nur-Sultan and the BGS of the National Security Committee. Experts from CARICC and the Academy of the BGS of the National Security of Kazakhstan Committee trained border guards on how to develop a system of risk profiling, employ statistical instruments to analyse information on criminal incidents and develop an actionable in-depth risk profile. From 19 to 23 November, the Office, in co-operation with the INL Office of the United States Embassy in Nur-Sultan and the BGS under the National Security Committee, organized a training seminar on the detection of forged travel documents and identification techniques. Twenty-three border guards from Almaty International Airport and different land border crossing points were trained by experts from Austria’s Federal MoI on the use of paper and polymer substrates in document security, conventional printing techniques, photo protection and secondary verification. From 20 to 22 November, the Office supported the TNTD/ BSMU MTT in delivering an interactive national course on identifying FTFs at the border for 25 first and second-line border and security officers. The deployment of the MTT, the ninth of its kind, was organized by the TNTD/BSMU, with support from the Office and in close co-operation with the Border Service of Kazakhstan. The importance of risk analysis models applied to identify potential FTFs at the borders, as well as background, trends and current Programme Office in Nur-Sultan – Police-Related Activities in 2018 2 33 Training Total 62 27 Information Exchange / Institution and Capacity-Building Analysis of Lessons Learned, Assessments and Guidelines ACTIVITIES ON: General Police Development and Reform 35% Threats posed by Criminal Activity 65% 134