During the period from April 24 to April 28, 2017, a number of CARICC officers attended a seminar in Astana devoted to the review of international experience in the field of profiling at international checkpoints in order to combat transnational crime.
This seminar was organized for border control officers of the Border Service of National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan as part of a joint initiative of the Border Service of the National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan, INL, OSCE and CARICC in training profiling specialists at international checkpoints to tackle various types of threats to national security.
Representatives of the Operational Frontier Group of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, the Risk Assessment Unit of the National Center for Analysis of Cargo Transportation of the Israeli Tax Service, the National Center for Information Collection of the U.S. Bureau on Customs Matters and Border Protection, as well as the trainers of the United States DEA Global Training Team acted as experts in this seminar.
CARICC officers delivered a presentation on software tools for processing information that can be used to organize risk profiling directly at checkpoints in real time.
As a whole, officers of border control agencies of the National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan noted that the seminar fully met their expectations and that the experience gained would be very useful in their future service at the border control points.

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