Regional K9 Training and Certification Centre Opened in Gjorce Petrov

On Monday, Interior Minister Pance Toskovski visited the Gjorce Petrov Police Centre, where he delivered an address at the opening of the Regional K9 Training and Certification Centre.

The opening is one of the most significant activities in the frames of the project headlined “Assisting the National Authorities of the Republic of North Macedonia to Decrease the Risk of Weapon Proliferation and Misuse of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW)”, being implemented with support from the OSCE Mission, his Ministry said in the press-release.

Describing the Ministry-OSCE Mission cooperation as excellent, Toskovski also underlined its huge importance to developing and employing policies for a modern security system.

The Mission’s Deputy Head, Susan Penksa, said that through the generous financial support from the donor community, especially from the US, Germany, the EU, France, Belgium, Norway, and Slovakia, the project showed the Mission’s strong commitment to strengthening operational and weapon detection capacities of the police units for search dogs.