OSCE Office in Tajikistan conducts a series of trainings for Tajik border guards and Afghan border police.

A 5-day training course on border patrol and patrol management for Tajik students was launched on April 9 this year, the OSCE Office told the AP. The course is being conducted in the frameworks of Tajikistan’s National Border Management Strategy.

Students will be trained to plan and carry out patrol missions through the use of topographic maps and satellite images. Training course will let students to develop their management and analytical skills as well as reporting skills.

In the course of the opening ceremony Lieutenant General Sherali Mirzo and Ambassador Ivar Vikki, Head of OSCE Bureau in Tajikistan, signed an MoU between Tajik Border Control Department and OSCE Bureau in Tajikistan.

OSCE also donated three off-road vehicles and training materials that will be used to improve operative opportunities along the “green borderline” between Tajikistan and Afghanistan where border-crossing is forbidden.

This training is part of the Border Patrol and Patrol Management Project. Similar trainings for Tajik border guards are conducted in the frameworks of the project since 2009.