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Further education
Border Protection Authority in the Border Areas and Buffer Zones

On July 7, 2022, the Office of the Crime Prevention Coordination Council of Mongolia, in cooperation with the general authority, organized a regional training for border guards on 'Enhancing the detection, decision-making, monitoring and cooperation of environmental crimes and offenses in border areas' in Dornod Province.

The training was attended by over 60 border guard officials from the provinces of Dornod and Sukhbaatar as well as rangers and environmental inspectors from the Sums.

 

The training was led by experts from the offices of the Environmental Police, the National Forensic Institute, the General Border Guard, the local police, the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Environment and Tourism Center. The key points included the following:

✅Policy, strategy and cooperation on environmental crime prevention and crime

✅Current status of forest and meadow fires in the border areas and prevention measures

✅Environmental crime and violations in the buffer zones and future measures by the Border Guard to combat them

✅Understanding environmental crime and the importance of implementing imminent danger

✅Considerations in the procedure for the discovery, seizure and preservation of evidence and material evidence at the crime scene

✅Consideration of issues relating to reviews and decisions on environmental crime in border areas.

During the training, the participants had the opportunity to tackle the challenges of combating and preventing environmental crime in the border areas and the buffer zone and to solve specific problems.