AKIPRESS.COM - The OSCE Center in Bishkek handed over a Mobile Police Reception vehicle to the Issyk-Kul Police. This vehicle aims to contribute to efforts to ensure public security in this tourist region of Kyrgyzstan and to promote social partnerships between the police and local communities.

As well as supporting work to prevent crimes, the vehicle is designed to make the police more accessible to citizens so that they can together address security concerns at the local level, and enhance the confidence of the population in the police.

“The Mobile Police Reception vehicles have proved to be a very effective community policing tool in addressing the security concerns of the population,” said Pavel Khalashnyuk, acting Head of Police Affairs at the OSCE Center in Bishkek. “This is a proactive policing philosophy when police approaches communities to learn about the problems and concerns so that they can address them in partnership with the local authorities and the communities themselves.”

Mobile Police Reception vehicles were introduced in Kyrgyzstan in 2011 and are actively used by police. This is the 19th Mobile Police Reception vehicle donated by the OSCE Center in Bishkek to the Kyrgyz Ministry of Interior since 2011. The other 18 vehicles are currently operating in remote areas of Osh, Jalal-Abad and Batken regions, and the Chui and Jaiyl districts of Chui region.