The OSCE Secretariat’s Transnational Threats Department/Strategic Police Matters Unit (TNTD/SPMU) on January 8 hosted a virtual discussion on Tajikistan’s national priorities on cybercrime activities.
According to the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe, national counterparts from the Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Police Academy of the Interior Ministry discussed upcoming training modules and reaffirmed their commitment to the OSCE’s Extra-Budgetary project, Capacity Building on Combating Cybercrime in Central Asia, which was launched in October 2020.
The project aims to work closely with five OSCE participating States in Central Asia; Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, to enhance the criminal justice’s response to cybercrime, while upholding human rights.
It is a collaborative endeavor of the TNTD/SPMU, OSCE Field Operations in Central Asia, law enforcement training institutions and other relevant national authorities.
The TNTD/SPMU is currently in the process of setting up a team of experts from European countries, the Russian Federation and the United States to support the development and organization of training courses scheduled for on-line delivery in 2021.
The initiative is implemented in co-operation with the UNODC Global Programme on Cybercrime and co-ordinated with the Council of Europe. The United States of America is funding the project, which will last until March 2024.
