OSCE trains border guards on travel document security and identification in Kazakhstan

A five-day OSCE-supported training seminar for 30 border guards on the detection of forged travel documents and identification techniques concluded in Astana on 19 May 2017.

Experts from Austria’s Federal Ministry of the Interior shared best practices in ensuring international document security, including identifying falsified travel documents during document control. Participants also discussed the use of paper and polymer substrates in document security, conventional printing techniques, photo protection, secondary verification and profiling. National experts from Kazakhstan presented techniques for resolving conflict situations with passengers while conducting border control procedures.   

The event was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana in co-operation with the United States Embassy in Kazakhstan and the Border Guard Service under the National Security Committee, with support from the OSCE Transnational Threats Department’s Travel Document Security Programme. The course was requested by the host country in preparation for Astana’s role as host of Expo-2017.

A follow-up training seminar on this topic will take place in September in Almaty.

The seminar is part of both the Office’s long-term effort to promote the OSCE border security concept in Kazakhstan and the Transnational Threats Department’s Travel Document Security Programme.