ORGANIZATION FOR SECURITY AND CO-OPERATION IN EUROPE
Tajik law enforcement officers studied the intricacies of crime scene examination and forensic recovery during five days of training in May 2015 at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) office in Tajikistan.
The training provided theoretical and practical training sessions using international best practices. It brought together 33 representatives working in crime scene management, crime scene examination and forensic evidential recovery from the Ministry of Interior Affairs, General Prosecutor’s Office and State Committee for National Security of Tajikistan from Dushanbe and other regions.
Peter Hajnik, counterterrorism and police issues adviser at OSCE, said: “Crime scene investigation is the meeting point of science, logic and law. Processing a crime scene is a long, tedious process that involves purposeful documentation of the conditions at the scene and the collection of any physical evidence that could possibly illuminate what happened and point to who did it.”
During the training, participants were also introduced to the essentials of cyber crime. But the event was largely taken up with practical experience like fingerprinting, photographing, documenting a crime scene and evaluating crime scene cases. At the end of the training, the OSCE donated 30 crime scene kits and cameras to participants.