POLIS - Policing OnLine Information System
The Digital Library is a collection of documents created and supported by a community of policing experts. It is also a central repository of knowledge on all aspects of international police-related assistance.
24 October 2011 - 30 June 2012
The goal of this online forum is to facilitate discussions among Criminal Justice System experts from the OSCE participating States, OSCE executive structures and international and national organizations on the topic of holistic police reform within the reform of the wider Criminal justice System (CJS). More
8 March 2012 - 31 December 2012
This online forum, organized by the Strategic Police Matters Unit of the Transnational Threats Department, aims to facilitate the exchange of best practices, lessons learned, and other relevant information sharing in the area of preventing and combating sexual abuse of children on the Internet, as well as to contribute to the development of the e-learning module in the area of counter online child abuse. More
16 March 2012 - 1 March 2013
The purpose of this online forum is to facilitate discussion among civil society, academia and government stakeholders from OSCE participating States and Partners for Co-operation, as well as experts from OSCE executive structures and international organizations, on the use of community policing or police-public partnerships as part of a human-rights compliant and gender sensitive approach to preventing terrorism and countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism (VERLT). More
21 May 2012 - 25 May 2012
The online forum will focus on key issues related to how terrorists can potentially use the Internet to plan and carry out attacks. Based on a discussion paper circulated to OSCE participating and Partner States, the goal of the forum discussions will be to identify pertinent trends and responses to this threat in line with OSCE commitments as well as to identify how the OSCE can further contribute to countering the Internet being used as tactical facilitator by terrorists. More
The OSCE Policing OnLine Information System (POLIS) is a comprehensive,
multi-lingual resource that consolidates all aspects of law enforcement activities
within the OSCE area, including police assistance, training techniques and funding
opportunities. Our objective is to make this vast storehouse of information available to
interested parties and to create a virtual community of policing experts.
POLIS is maintained by the Transnational Threats Co-ordination Cell.
We are interested in establishing partnership with relevant international organizations and national police agencies and academies
Find out moreThe Policing Experts Database provides a roster of highly qualified experts that OSCE and other international organizations can benefit from through consultancy-type services not exceeding six months.
Find out moreCountry profiles of the OSCE Participating States and Partners for Co-operation provide information about law enforcement structures and a general overview of the criminal justice system.
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