In August 2022, CARICC specialists jointly conducted assessment missions with a representative of the Regional Program for Afghanistan and neighboring countries in the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, combined with a one-day training to collect and classification of information within the framework of the RO "Reflex" and "Substitution".

On August 18-19, the event, organized on the basis of the Counter Narcotics Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic, was attended by senior officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Border Service of the State Committee for National Security and the State Customs Service under the Ministry of Finance of the Kyrgyz Republic.

On August 22-23, a similar meeting was held at the DCA training center under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, which was attended by senior officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Border Troops of the State Committee for National Security and the Customs Committee under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan.

The assessment mission in Turkmenistan was carried out on August 29-30 in the UN building (Akhshabad) with the participation of representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the State Border Service and the State Customs Service of Turkmenistan.

During the working meetings, the specialists of the Center presented the results of RO "Reflex-2021" and "Substitution. Phase 2”, as well as plans for the implementation of the next stages of these regional operations aimed at combating with the spread of new psychoactive substances, psychotropic substances and other synthetic drugs, as well as to detect and stop the smuggling of precursors used for drug production. CARICC experts conducted practical exercises on the collection and classification of information within the planned regional operations "Reflex-2022" and "Substitution. Phase 3. The participants also discussed the needs of the competent authorities of the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan and Turkmenistan for the successful implementation of regional operations.