The three-day training session was arranged by the EU-UNDP Border Management in Central Asia (BOMCA) Programme together with the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD).

Two trainers from the European Union, Tibor Kovacs, Senior Officer of Bureau of Border and Alien Police of the Slovak Republic and Roland Fruehwirth, Deputy Commander of a Police Unit for Schengen Compensation Measures, Austria, presented such topics, as devices for document verification, conventional printing techniques, printing techniques, various stages of passport production, photo security, document personalization techniques and imposter detection methods.

Participants had a chance to learn European experience in identifying falsified documents and have found this knowledge useful in their daily operations.

The overall objectives of BOMCA are to help increase security in the Central Asian region, to contribute toward the facilitation of legitimate trade and transit, and to reduce the illicit movement of goods and people.

The BOMCA Programme is funded by the European Union and implemented by UNDP with ICMPD as an implementing partner.