OSCE Mission to Skopje supports public relations training for Interior Ministry spokespersons and advisors

A Train-the-trainers course supported by the OSCE Mission to Skopje for ten public relations advisors and regional police spokespersons from the Interior Ministry will be held in Skopje on 5 and 6 June 2015.

The course aims at advancing and transferring the skills of the Ministry’s public relations advisors and spokespersons to other police officers, as well as at raising their awareness on the importance of public relations and communication with the public.

After completing the course, the public relations advisors will work on a tailor-made workshop due to take place in the second half of the year on relations with the public and media for high and mid-level management from the Ministry’s eight Sectors of Internal Affairs.

The advanced training on public relations for police officers deployed countrywide as well as the inclusion of a module on public relations in the basic training for the police officers are further steps in overcoming the current police-media centralized communication.

A second session of the training course will take place in mid-June 2015.