United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime conducted a Regional Training Course for border guards of Central Asian countries on risk profiling and methods of identifying drug couriers at checkpoints in Astana on 19-21 June 2024.

This training was conducted by specialists of the Border Academy of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan, Law Enforcement Academy under the General Prosecutor's Office of Kazakhstan, Central Asian Regional Information and Coordination Centre for Combating Illicit Trafficking of Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and their Precursors (CARICC) and Turkish International Academy Against Drugs and Organized Crime (TADOC).

In the course of the training participants learned advanced methods of identifying and profiling potential criminals during border control for combating illicit drug trafficking.