OSCE launches project on combating cybercrime and cyber-enabled crime in South-Eastern Europe
A new OSCE capacity-building project aimed at developing and enhancing the responsiveness, professional knowledge and skills of criminal justice institutions in South-Eastern Europe was launched on 14 September 2017 in Podgorica, Montenegro. The project was developed to address common and new challenges in fighting cybercrime and cyber-enabled crime.
Members of the project's Co-ordination Board with the Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro Dan Redford, Podgorica, 14 September 2017.
“Responding to cybercrime poses a significant challenge for all criminal justice institutions because it requires specific skills and knowledge. Just as police officers need to know how to investigate such crimes, other representatives of the criminal justice system, be it prosecutors, judges or defence lawyers, also need to acquire an adequate level of understanding of the methods and technology behind these new types of crime,” stressed Dan Redford, Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro. He was speaking during the constituent meeting of the board that will co-ordinate and monitor project activities and their implementation.
The project is a collaborative endeavor of the OSCE Secretariat’s Transnational Threats Department/Strategic Police Matters Unit and Co-ordination Cell, OSCE field operations in the region and their respective host authorities. By employing a training-of-trainers component as its core element, it aims to build the training capacities of its beneficiaries to ensure sustainability and continuity of achieved results and established processes.
Following a series of regional training courses on various thematic aspects of combating cybercrime and cyber-enabled crime in the coming months, a first round of local training courses is to be organized by the beneficiaries themselves and monitored by respective OSCE field operations in the second half of 2018. A regional review workshop after this first round will assess the implementation of local training courses, identify challenges and best practices and provide recommendations for the next rounds of training activities. The project will conclude with a regional conference in spring 2019 to take stock of the project implementation and achievements and identify areas requiring special attention in the future.
Source: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
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