AKIPRESS.COM - Twenty-six officers from the Tajik border troops, the State Committee for National Security, the Ministry of Interior, the Drug Control Agency and the Customs Service completed a two-week training course today on combating organized crime, organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan.

Graduates, members of respective training institutions and operational managers learnt about investigating financial crimes, countering money laundering, as well as techniques for identifying and combating drugs smuggling, illegal migration, trafficking in human-beings and combating terrorism.

The course, which is part of the OSCE’s border security program, focuses on the capacity-building of national border security and management agencies. It was supported by experts from Tajik National law enforcement agencies, such as the Ministry of Interior and the Drug Control Agency, and international experts from Hungary and Turkey.