UNODC and WCO jointly conduct National training program on profiling of containers

Turkmenabat, 2 June 2010 – On 17-28 May, 2010, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and World Customs Organization (WCO) jointly conducted National training program on profiling of containers in Turkmenabat under Global Container Control Programme (CCP) – Turkmenistan Segment.

The training course is intended for 24 law enforcement officials from the State Customs Service, the State Drug Control Service, the State Border Service and the Ministry of National Security.

The training participants represented operational staff from three border crossing checkpoints including Serahs (Turkmenistan – I.R of Iran border), Farap (Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan border) and Serhetabad (Turkmenistan- Afghanistan border). International experts from the UNODC, the WCO and Norway and Mongolia acted as the principal trainers of the course.

The representative UNODC Program Office in Ashgabat made welcome remarks at the opening ceremony on May 17 by emphasizing the importance of the event introducing international applications and sharing best practices on effective container control and profiling as well as UNODC plans to expand the project and establish joint port control units throughout the country.

The topics covered by the course have been selected very carefully and elaborated with the relevant national and international regulations on container trade; safety and security aspect of seaport and container control operation; standardized risk assessment; the encrypted communication tools; intelligence; trade facilitation; drugs, chemical precursors.

The UNODC-WCO Container Control Programme is aimed to strengthen the participating states’ capacity to interdict illicit drugs, chemical precursors and other goods concealed in containers whilst facilitating legal trade. Turkmenistan is the first country in the Caspian Sea region to become part of the CCP.

For further information, please contact:

UNODC Program Office,
UN Building, 40 Galkynyh Str. , Ashgabat, 744013,Turkmenistan
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