MEDIA ADVISORY

Good practices in polices’ relations with media focus of next Monday’s OSCE Annual Police Experts Meeting in Vienna

VIENNA, 22 September 2020 – Recent developments, opportunities and challenges for the police in working with the media and journalists is the focus of the 2020 Annual Police Experts Meeting (APEM), which will take place on Monday, 28 September in Vienna’s Hofburg and online via Zoom.

The one-day meeting will bring together law enforcement experts and other criminal justice practitioners; OSCE delegations, representatives of regional and international organizations; media workers and journalists; researchers, human rights experts, as well as civil society from the OSCE participating States and Partners for Co-operation.

The meeting is organized by Albania’s 2020 OSCE Chairmanship with the support of the Strategic Police Matters Unit of the OSCE Secretariat’s Transnational Threats Department, and in co-ordination with the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media.

The event will be opened by Romina Kuko, Albania’s Deputy Minister of Interior on behalf of the OSCE Chairmanship, Ambassador Luca Fratini, Director of the Office of the OSCE Secretary General, and Jürgen Heissel, Director of the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media.

Following the opening remarks, the discussions will focus on: organizational changes and developments of skills and competencies within the police in public relations and media communications; police and the social media; police-media relations in crisis situations and during high-risk events, the freedom of the media and safety of journalists.

Representatives of the media are invited to the entire meeting via Zoom. Registration should be completed through https://events.osce.org/2020-apem/registration, by 24 September 2020. The link and the password to access the meeting on Zoom will be provided to all registered media.

More information can be found here.

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