Organized crime
The OSCE supports its participating States with expertise and training, manages networks and promotes co-operation to combat organized crime.
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The Transnational Threats Department, in close co-operation with field operations and other executive structures, supports participating States in preventing and combating organized crime through a comprehensive approach that combines research to better understand criminal dynamics and justice challenges, concrete action to counter illicit financial flows and strengthen asset recovery, and prevention efforts to foster a culture of lawfulness and resilience to disrupt the recruitment of youth into criminal groups.
Across these areas, the Department prioritizes targeted capacity-building and technical assistance, while also working to strengthen regional dialogue, trust and co-operation, recognizing that organized crime transcends borders and requires equally transnational responses.
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OSCE regional workshop in Durrës focused on nexus between drug trafficking and violent crime
The OSCE Presence in Albania, with support from the OSCE Transnational Threats Department/Strategic Police Matters Unit and the United States Department of Justice’s International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP), organized a two-day regional workshop on the nexus between drug trafficking and violent crime.
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Women’s role in drug trafficking and organized crime was focus of OSCE side event at 68th Session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs
The OSCE Transnational Threats Department held a side event on the role of women in organized crime and drug trafficking on the margins of the 68th Session of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs on 14 March 2025 in Vienna, Austria.
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Role of gender-sensitive prevention and exit programmes focus on OSCE webinar on International Day for the Prevention of and Fight against All Forms of Transnational Organized Crime
To mark the International Day for the Prevention of and Fight against all Forms of Transnational Organized Crime on 15 November, the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department (TNTD) held a webinar to discuss the role of women in organized criminal groups. The webinar brought together over x participants including policymakers, criminal justice practitioners, academia and civil society.
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