From February 15 till 18, 2022, the Border Management Programme in Central Asia (BOMCA) in partnership with the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (FRONTEX), and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) held a national training of trainers (ToT, basic level) on document security in Bishkek. The training aimed at enhancing the capacity of trainers and instructors with the expertise in documents authenticity verification and advancing their skills in detection of forged documents.

The training has been completed by the instructors of the institutes and training centers responsible for training professionals in the area of documents check of persons crossing the border, as well as border control and customs officers with respective experience.

The expertise during the workshop was delivered by the Chief of the Examination Service of the State Border Guard of Latvia and an expert from FRONTEX.

In the framework of ToT, experts provided basic and advanced training curricula developed on the basis of the European Union’s best practices and a set of materials for further training of staff in the field. At the end of a four-day work, a regional expert network was established to facilitate information exchange in the area of document security. In the future, participants of the advanced ToT course will be trained to prepare Fraudulent Travel Document Warnings (alerts) to be disseminated through the national points of contact.