In the period from July 30 to August 10, 2018 in the city of Samarkand (Republic of Uzbekistan), the Regional Office in Central Asia of the UNODC organized two training courses for officers of the competent authorities of the Republic of Uzbekistan in order to combat transnational crime, included in the Interagency Mobile Groups and Operations Coordination Team on the organization of profiling, search and inspection.
At these courses, among the other invited international experts, an analyst of CARICC took part as a trainer.
In the process of training, participants were informed about the basic principles of the work of mobile groups and vehicle screening, as well as on the concepts of risk management, methods of profiling, tactical methods in conducting a passenger survey, and methods for detecting potential criminals in passenger traffic. Particular attention was paid to understanding the psychological characteristics of the personality of a criminal, terrorist, drug trafficker and prediction in the behavior of the suspect.
This year, CARICC staff acted as trainers in four courses on profiling, in which more than 70 employees of the competent authorities of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have been trained.

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CARICC during the period from July 30 to August 1, 2018, hosted two expert working group meetings of the member states of the Central Asian Regional Information and Coordination Center for Combating Illicit Trafficking of Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and their Precursors on improving the normative legal basis of CARICC.
The meetings were attended by representatives of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Republic of Uzbekistan and CARICC.
During the meetings, experts of the CARICC member states discussed proposals and comments on the draft Agreement between the CARICC member states on the exchange and protection of secret information.
As a result of the discussion, the meeting participants finalized the draft Agreement, discussed proposals and comments on the Draft Rules for the Budget of the Center, and also recommended CARICC to submit the issue of the results of the work of the experts working group to the next meeting of the Council of National Coordinators of CARICC member states.

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Director of CARICC Police Colonel Pustovitov G.B. took part in the regular meeting of the Council of Ministers of Internal Affairs of the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States (hereinafter referred to as the CMIA) on July 20, 2018 in Baku.
The meeting was attended by the delegation of the Ministries of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Office for the Coordination of the Fight Against Organized Crime and Other Dangerous Types of Crimes on the Territory of the Commonwealth of Independent States, as well as representatives of the Council of Ministers of Internal Affairs of the Commonwealth of Independent States at the CIS Executive Committee and International Criminal Police Organization – INTERPOL.
In the margins of the meeting of the CMIA, the Director of CARICC held working meetings with all the heads of delegations of the above-mentioned states to discuss the issues of interaction. The Director of CARICC presented information on the work of the Center, plans to join to the Agreement on the establishment of CARICC by other countries, as well as to resolve issues on improving the Center's regulatory base and information exchange.

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