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CPS President Paul Goldenberg Selected by World's Largest Government Security Agency to Lead International Team to Assess Kosovo Security and Law Enforcement Services
PRISTINA, Kosovo - March 3, 2007 - An international team of law enforcement executives, lead by the former head of the New Jersey Hate Crimes Unit, is on the ground in Pristina, Kosovo providing help to the police in this struggling region in their ongoing battle to diffuse community tensions and prevent the eruption of all-out war.
Paul Goldenberg, the former Chief of the Hate Crimes Unit for the State of New Jersey is the project leader for this initiative undertaken on behalf of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Goldenberg, along with police executives from Canada and the United Kingdom were in Belgrade, Serbia along with Pristina and Mitrovica, Kosovo to meet with government, community and police leaders to evaluate how he and his team could assist them in reducing community friction.
Goldenberg’s international team has worked in a number of nations in both eastern and Western Europe, where their unprecedented work has brought together Human Rights organizations and Police departments to sit down at the table and discuss issues of mutual concern, in many countries, this has been for the first time.
Following major events, such as the Halimi kidnapping and killing in Paris and the riots in France and Hungary, Goldenberg has provided support and counsel to government and police leadership in managing community unrest and assisting them in building bridges to disenfranchised sectors.
In Kosovo, Goldenberg and his team have identified opportunities for the police and community to work together in battling unrest. He and members of the international implementation team that he leads anticipate returning to Pristina later this year to provide hate crimes training, community capacity building, community development along with skills development training in the areas such as forensic evidence, community mobilization and public order management.
Goldenberg, who has almost 20 years of law enforcement experience in New Jersey and Florida is a onetime “Law Enforcement Officer of the Year” and retired as Chief of the Hate and Bias Crime Unit for the State of New Jersey. He is considered an international expert on the issue of hate crime, and currently provides a range of community security and consultative services to governments, faith communities and the private sector through National Public Safety Strategies, where he is President.