On 3-6 November in Karaganda, the Programme Office in Astana, in co-operation with the State Revenues Committee of the Finance Ministry and the US Embassy in Kazakhstan, organized a four-day regional seminar on the detection of trafficking routes for illegal drugs and their precursors, including methods for detecting relevant contraband.
Some 60 officers from across the country representing the State Revenues Committee, the Interior Ministry, the Prosecutor General’s Office and the National Security Committee as well as high-level officials from anti-drug trafficking services of Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan learned from international experts from Georgia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania and the United States as well as Interpol about best international practices in identifying and precluding international routes for drugs and their precursors, types of precursors used to produce illicit drugs, successful examples of using controlled deliveries and techniques to detect drug traffickers as well as the work of Interpol in combating drug trafficking.