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The Community Security Initiative in action
Following the June 2010 violence in the southern provinces of Osh and Jalal-Abad, the Government of Kyrgyzstan requested the OSCE’s support to help stabilize the region and assist in the area of policing. The result was the formation of the Community Security Initiative, which is mandated to support Kyrgyzstan’s police in addressing the country’s security situation.
Deputy Head of CSI Frank Rowe (r) and Head of CSI Markus Muller in discussion at the CSI office, Osh, 16 March 2012. (OSCE/Eric Gourlan)
A CSI team meets with police officers at the LCPC-1 police station, Kyzyl-Kiya, 15 March 2012. (OSCE/Eric Gourlan)
Since their introduction, police and community leaders have increasingly used customized minivans as places to raise and discuss problems. They contain the basic equipment required for a functioning mobile police reception unit. (OSCE/Eric Gourlan)
Police use mobile police reception cars to help them liaise with the local population, including these women selling figs and fruit in a market, Isfana, 14 March 2012. (OSCE/Eric Gourlan)
CSI members and a police officer from police team number 2 interact with local women on the street, Isfana, 14 March 2012. (OSCE/Eric Gourlan)
Local newspaper editor and published poet Abdilaat Doorov (l) presents his latest book to CSI member Darren Kowalchuk (r) at the opening ceremony for the CSI office, Isfana, 14 March 2012. (OSCE/Eric Gourlan)
Members of the CSI team huddle with police team number 2 in the CSI office, Isfana, 14 March 2012. (OSCE/Eric Gourlan)
The CSI Isfana office was opened on 14 March 2012. Kyrgyzstan’s government has requested the OSCE to expand the CSI’s activities to other districts in the country and extend the mandate until December 2012. (OSCE/Eric Gourlan)