In the period from July 30 to August 10, 2018 in the city of Samarkand (Republic of Uzbekistan), the Regional Office in Central Asia of the UNODC organized two training courses for officers of the competent authorities of the Republic of Uzbekistan in order to combat transnational crime, included in the Interagency Mobile Groups and Operations Coordination Team on the organization of profiling, search and inspection.
At these courses, among the other invited international experts, an analyst of CARICC took part as a trainer.
In the process of training, participants were informed about the basic principles of the work of mobile groups and vehicle screening, as well as on the concepts of risk management, methods of profiling, tactical methods in conducting a passenger survey, and methods for detecting potential criminals in passenger traffic. Particular attention was paid to understanding the psychological characteristics of the personality of a criminal, terrorist, drug trafficker and prediction in the behavior of the suspect.
This year, CARICC staff acted as trainers in four courses on profiling, in which more than 70 employees of the competent authorities of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have been trained.

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