Uzbekistan and Tajikistan Law Enforcement Agencies Improve Intelligence Led Policing

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Regional Office for Central Asia held two side-by-side pilot training courses on Intelligence Led Policing with participation of 28 law enforcement officers from the Ministries of Internal Affairs, Border Forces of the State Security Services, the National Information-Analytical Centre on Drug Control under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Drug Control Agency under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan on 26-28 February 2020 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and on 2-4 March 2020 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan respectively. These courses were part of the UNODC initiative on "Drug Law Enforcement systems for criminal intelligence collection, analysis and exchange and pilot Intelligence Led Policing" component.

“These courses were designed to improve the intelligence processing and sharing among operative officers, investigators and the data analysts. In particular, it will enhance the quality of data analysis and the exchange at the national and regional levels, as well as better use of the capacity of the Central Asia Regional Information Center (CARICC)” – said Mr. Simon Ramsden, UNODC International consultant.

The training courses aimed to increase the capacity of the law enforcement agencies to enhance the intelligence gathering and information management capacity and to further develop mechanisms for collection, processing and dissemination of data between the analysts and the law enforcement officers. Quality, reliability and timeliness of intelligence were among the core aspects of discussion in the course of the training programme.

These events were organized in the frame of UNODC reginal initiative on "Drug Law Enforcement systems for criminal intelligence collection, analysis and exchange and pilot Intelligence Led Policing" under Sub-programme One of the UNODC Programme for Central Asia with funding support from U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL).

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