From 5 to 8 June in Almaty, the OSCE Programme Office in Astana supported a four-day training course, organised by the OSCE Secretariat’s Transnational Threats Department and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), at the Central Asian Regional Information and Coordination Centre (CARICC), in Almaty, Kazakhstan, to strengthen the capacity of government experts to resolve and investigate kidnapping situations. The course was led by experts of the Spanish National Police and included training sessions on responses during the different phases of a kidnapping.