In the period from April 23 to April 28, a working visit of the Director of CARICC Colonel of the Police G.B. Pustovitov was made in the city of Toledo (Spain), within the framework of which a number of high-level international events were held, including: The first global anti-drug conference of the INTERPOL member states, as well as bilateral meetings on the margins of this conference.
The above-mentioned conference was organized by the General Secretariat of ICPO INTERPOL jointly with the National Police of Spain, during which took part delegations of ICPO INTERPOL member states and representatives of international organizations.
In the framework of bilateral meetings, the delegation of CARICC held talks with representatives of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, the State of Qatar, the Russian Federation, Spain, the United Kingdom and the Republic of Uzbekistan.
As a result of the working visit, CARICC representatives reached an agreement on deepening the practical cooperation of the Center with the national coordinating authorities and competent authorities of the CARICC member states, observer states and other countries and organizations on a wide range of issues of interaction.

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On April 26, 2018, Bishkek hosted the annual meeting of the Steering Committee of the UNODC Programme for Central Asian States for 2015-2019.
The event was attended by the heads of the competent authorities of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, the Republic of Uzbekistan, representatives of the diplomatic corps, international organizations, including the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and CARICC.
Lieutenant-General A.Sh. Shayakhmetov, Deputy Director of CARICC, made a report on the major results of the Center’s activities in 2017 and plans for the Organization for 2018.

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Between April 16 and 20, 2018, a seminar on the organization of targeting at transport facilities of the Republic of Kazakhstan was held at CARICC facilities, which was organized by the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Section of the U.S. Embassy in the Republic of Kazakhstan (INL) and OSCE Programmes Office in Astana.
This seminar is organized within the framework of international cooperation in the field of counteracting transnational crime for the officers of the Central Department of Internal Affairs at Transport and Line Units of Internal Affairs Agencies for Drug Enforcement, as well as departmental educational institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Representatives of Karaganda Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, experts from CARICC and the Association of Psychologists of Kazakhstan took part in the seminar as trainers.
During the one-week seminar, participants were provided with information on the basic concepts of risk management, targeting methods, tactical methods when conducting a passenger survey, techniques for detecting potential criminals in passenger traffic. The new knowledge gained by the participants during this seminar was fixed during practical training at one of the transport facilities in Almaty.

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