A webinar on “Dynamic security and prison intelligence: focus on violent extremist prisoners” for officers of operational and investigative units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan was hosted online from 10 to 12 December 2020.

CARICC employees also took part in this training.

The event was organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre. It was moderated by Mr. Batyr Saparbaev, UNODC Regional Expert for Central Asia, and Ms. Madina Sarieva, International Coordinator of the UNODC Programme Office in Kazakhstan.

The webinar was composed of six sessions in which experts and trainers delivered presentations and briefed on various aspects related to the topic. Specifically, they discussed international provisions on intelligence gathering, sharing and confidentiality along with key concepts of intelligence gathering and sharing, proposals to improve data sharing process, criminal procedure legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on covert investigative actions, cooperation of penitentiary institutions and law enforcement agencies in managing violent extremist prisoners and dynamic security in prisons.

The training opened with a pre-test to preliminarily assess knowledge of the participants on the topic, and insight gained was evaluated at the end of the webinar.

Participants found the course to be highly relevant and conducive to improving professional level of law enforcement officers.