From September 16 to 17, the EU-funded Border Management Programme in Central Asia (BOMCA 10), held a national workshop in Astana for officers from analytical units of border and law enforcement agencies of Kazakhstan responsible for risk analysis and crime identification.
On September 16, the EU-funded Border Management Programme in Central Asia organised a regional online workshop on profiling at border checkpoints.
The EU-funded Border Management Programme in Central Asia (BOMCA 10) starts its National Steering Group meetings where jointly with the beneficiaries it reviews milestones reached in the past year as well as agrees on plans for the final year of implementation.
In Latvia, from September 3-5, the EU-funded Border Management Programme in Central Asia (BOMCA 10) organised a study visit on transit-related questions for the representatives of Customs Services in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, which are responsible for developing a national transit strategy/policy and have expertise in the field of application of the transit/TIR procedures in their countries.
Since 2011, under the BOMCA organized framework of the “Issyk-Kul Initiative”, Central Asian border agencies come together regularly in a regional forum for cooperation and information exchange in the field of border security in Central Asia.
On August 21, the EU-funded Border Management Programme in Central Asia (BOMCA 10) officially handed over two quadcopters to the Border Service of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan. The total value of the transferred equipment amounted to 59,950.00 EUR.
Following the established good practice of cooperation with the NGOs from Central Asia and based on the results of a highly competitive selection process, BOMCA selected and provided EU funding to 12 projects in the framework of its second Call for Proposals.
On July 1, in Lithuania and Latvia, the Border Management Programme in Central Asia (BOMCA 10) started the second round of the 12-weeks Train – the – Trainers (ToT) training course for K9 instructors of five Central Asian countries. It is important to recall that these programme activities are aimed at improving dog handling instructors’ theoretical knowledge and practical skills for the training of dog handling teams and service dogs, used for daily border guarding, customs control and law enforcement tasks.
From July 9 to 11, the EU-funded Border Management Programme in Central Asia (BOMCA10) organised a study visit to the EU (Latvia) regarding implementation of border control procedures under EU requirements, including a demonstration of best practices of inter - agency cooperation mechanisms at various levels of command, as defined in the National IBM strategy of Latvia.
