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The time has come for the OSCE to start sharing its storehouse of policing-related knowledge and experience with practitioners and policymakers, says Kevin Carty, Senior Police Adviser to the Secretary General. In an interview with Patricia N. Sutter, Editor of theOSCE Magazine, the former Commissioner of the EU Police Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina describes the renewed push of the Vienna-based Strategic Police Matters Unit to address the broad spectrum of law-enforcement concerns of participating States as efficiently and effectively as possible.