News and press releases

SKOPJE, 7 July 2004- An OSCE-sponsored workshop on the involvement of civil society in police reform began in Skopje today. The event aims at identifying areas in which NGOs can provide input and work together with the police in the reform...

SKOPJE, 1 July 2004- The OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje today began a training session for some 300 members of Citizens Advisory Groups, which have been created with the OSCE Mission's assistance to support a community policing initiative...

SKOPJE, 13 June 2004- The OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje and the country's Interior Ministry are today hosting a Police Open Day at the Kumanovo Sports Centre. Developed as a Community Policing project under the Police's Citizen Outreach...

BELGRADE, 9 June 2004- The OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro and the Embassy of Norway today handed over special equipment to the Border Police Directorate of the Serbian Interior Ministry as part of its assistance programme in the fight against...

BAKU, 8 June 2004- Rapid reaction to human rights violations and investigation of known cases in preliminary detention facilities in Azerbaijan will be the focus of a project jointly launched by the OSCE Office in Baku and the Ombudsman Institution...

DANILOVGRAD, 4 June 2004- Twelve police officers of the Montenegrin Interior Ministry graduated today from the OSCE Trainer Development Course at a ceremony held at the Danilovgrad Police Academy in Montenegro. They are now certified to instruct their...

POZEGA, 1 June 2004- The OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro, its international partners and representatives of the Serbian Interior Ministry met in the Central Serbian town of Pozega today to agree on standards for evaluating progress on pilot...