From the beginning of 2016 until the present day, as part of the initiative of the Border Guard Service of the Committee for National Security of the Republic of Kazakhstan (RoK CNS BGS), the staff of Central Asian Regional Information and Coordination Center for Combating Illicit Trafficking of Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and their Precursors (CARICC), has been implementing a series of activities aimed at enhancing capacities of border control authorities by forming practical skills with their employees in organizing and targeting of potentially dangerous persons, vehicles and goods that cross the state border of Kazakhstan at international aviation, road and rail border crossing points.
This initiative has been implementing in cooperation with the Association of Psychologists of the Republic of Kazakhstan and under the organizational and financial support of the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Section (INL) of the U.S. Embassy in the Republic of Kazakhstan and OSCE Programmes Office in Astana (OSCE).
As part of training seminars delivered by CARICC staff who acted as trainers, the servicemen of the Border Guard Service of Kazakhstan were briefed on information on the functioning of the Integrated Risk Analysis and Management System, Risk Analysis using the example of the FRONTEX European Coastal and Border Protection Agency, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Service and the Customs Service of South Korea.
During the course of training sessions, 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 Information Collection Center of the U.S. Bureau for Customs Affairs and Border Protection acted as experts, including trainers of the U.S. DEA Global Training Team acted as experts.
Trainees were familiarized with an Overview of the legal framework, as well as recommendations on the use of the Risk Management System when exercising border control, and on their implementation based on the current national legislation.
CARICC officers delivered a presentation on software tools for processing information that can be used to organize risk targeting directly at checkpoints in real time.
At the same time, trainees were briefed on information on the methods and tricks applied by criminals when smuggling drugs using transport, on studying external characteristics of drug traffickers.
The participants of the seminar were advised of the results of drug seizures based on international practice, photo packs and appearance of drugs, including new psychoactive substances, such as “spice”, “salt baths”, “JWH”, their markings and logos.
In addition, the results of seizures and video films describing the distribution of new psychoactive substances, so called “synthetic drugs”, and vivid examples of large seizures thereof at the airports of neighboring countries were demonstrated to the trainees.
To consolidate knowledge and skills acquired, practical sessions were organized at the international checkpoints of Kazakhstan in cooperation with officers of the Airport Aviation Security Service, Customs, Transport Internal Affairs Agencies, and Border Control Units. Participants of the seminar demonstrated their high professional skills and expertise, applying them when performing practical training tasks.
During trainings experts from the Association of Psychologists of Kazakhstan and CARICC included techniques for a deep psychological analysis of the verbal and non-verbal behavior of a suspect, as well as methods to identify specific risk indicators.
All of the above activities were carried out at a high organizational and technical level.
Thus, for the period from March 2016 to April 2017, around eight (8) trainings, involving 128 servicemen of the Border Guard Service of RoK CNS, have been implemented. 
Participation of CARICC in trainings related to targeting of risks at checkpoints was highly appraised from the leadership of RoK CNS BGS, INL, and OSCE. Moreover, it was as a practical continuation in the form of deliverables of the border control authorities in the short term due to training and advanced training of border guards.
In particular, according RoK CNS BGS’s estimates, due to participation in the targeting programme, in 2016 its officers seized about 90 kg of various narcotic drugs out of illicit trafficking at the checkpoints at the state border of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In the first quarter of 2017, 81 cases of drug detection were identified by officers. 
CARICC puts a special focus on Guidance Manual for Organizing Targeting at the Border Crossing Points prepared by the working group of INL-OSCE-CARICC-Association of Psychologists of the Republic of Kazakhstan and issued in 2017 for officers of the border control authorities of RoK CNS BGS. This Guidance Manual will enable to independently organize trainings for servicemen of border control authorities.

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