OSCE training course in Skopje focuses on detecting forged travel documents

Increasing operational awareness to detect forged documents and imposters is the aim of a three-day advanced training course for border police officers organized by the OSCE Secretariat’s Transnational Threats Department with support from the OSCE Mission to Skopje, which started at the Police Training Centre in Idrizovo on 22 August 2017.

During the training course, participating officers will learn about the personalization and manufacturing processes of a variety of travel documents as well as the latest trends in counterfeiting methods and means of identifying them.

The course also offers practical sessions where participants examine the security features of passports, visas, plastic cards and banknotes common in the region and practice identifying facial and behavioural indicators for imposters.

The training course is financially supported by the Government of Canada.

Since 2007, more than 40 similar courses have been organized across the OSCE area by the Transnational Threats Department’s Travel Document Security Programme, in co-operation with document experts from the Austrian Interior Ministry.