DUSAHNBE, November 19, Asia-Plus — A two-day training for officers with forensic-criminal units from central Asian states was launched at the Drug Control Agency in Dushanbe today.
Avaz Yuldoshev, a chief spokesman for the Tajik counternarcotics agency, said the training is part of the Central Asian Drug Action Program (CADAP-3).
According to him, experts from the lab and research department of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) are intrusting the training participants in methods of use of special equipment for testing narcotics.
Besides, technical assistance in a form of special equipment will be provided to the Central Asian forensic units, the chief spokesman said.
Border Management Program in Central Asia (BOMCA) and the Central Asian Drug Action Program (CADAP) are instrument of the European Union to assist the five Central Asian countries. The BOMCA-CADAP joint program is the largest technical assistance initiative of the European Commission in Central Asia. Both programs are implemented by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) through its field offices. A consortium of EU Member States headed by Austria is supporting BOMCA-CADAP in providing top EU technical experts to work for the programs. The wider objective of these two programs is to assist the Central Asian states to improve their overall security and at the same time to facilitate the movements of persons and goods across their borders. In particular BOMCA aims at modernizing the management of borders while CADAP aims at preventing drug trafficking and drug abuse.
