http://www.cepol.europa.eu/ Latest news from CEPOL - European Police College en http://www.cepol.europa.eu/fileadmin/img/logo_cepol.jpg http://www.cepol.europa.eu/ 137 105 Latest news from CEPOL - European Police College TYPO3 - get.content.right http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 15 May 2013 18:03:00 +0200 http://www.cepol.europa.eu/index.php?id=news-details&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=517&cHash=490cf2c0b659d9f1014417fb24590731 CEPOL is pleased to announce that its Annual Report 2012 is now available. here.]]> Secretariat News Wed, 15 May 2013 18:03:00 +0200 http://www.cepol.europa.eu/index.php?id=news-details&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=523&cHash=9feef295e60a601d9e77e79e1ce94a6d On 15 May, 2013 a cooperation agreement between the Centre for Police Education of the Albanian... On 15 May, 2013 a cooperation agreement between the Centre for Police Education of the Albanian State Police and the European Police College (CEPOL) was signed in Tirana, Albania. The ceremony was attended by Mr Fintan Fanning, Chair of CEPOL’s Governing Board, Dr Ferenc Bánfi, Director of CEPOL , Mr Hysni Burgaj, Director General of the Albanian State Police, Mr Mergim Hoxha, Director of the Centre for Police Education and other officials. The signing of the cooperation agreement increases the cooperation between CEPOL and the Centre for Police Education. Senior police officers from Albania will be able to participate in CEPOL courses and have access to CEPOL’s electronic learning platform (e-Net). Further, the Centre for Police Education will also have the possibility to contribute to CEPOL courses by supporting EU Member States to organise courses, for example by providing expert knowledge. Dr. Bánfi said, ‘The signing of this agreement opens the door not only to cooperation between Albania and CEPOL, but also to cooperation with all the national training institutes that are part of the CEPOL network. Our partnership is based on quality and we look forward to cooperating with you not only in a teaching capacity, but also to learn from your experience.’]]> Secretariat News Wed, 15 May 2013 15:03:00 +0200 http://www.cepol.europa.eu/index.php?id=news-details&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=522&cHash=b41cb6a54b91fb1bba482851677d7722 Italy hosted CEPOL course 26/2013 “Money Laundering” on 14-19 April 2013. Italy hosted CEPOL course 26/2013 “Money Laundering” on 14-19 April 2013. The activity was held in Rome’s Inter-agency College for Advanced Studies, the “Scuola di Perfezionamento per le Forze di Polizia”. The course was organized based on the Common Curriculum on “Money Laundering” recently updated by an “ad hoc working group” led by an Italian expert. At the helm of this training activity was the Guardia di Finanza, Italy’s police corps specialized in financial and economic crimes. Absolutely essential to the success of the course were the contributions received from the European Union Agencies Europol and Eurojust and the support of Bulgaria, Greece and Romania. Participants were in Rome as representatives of 25 EU countries (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom) and Iceland. The fight against money laundering is a priority set both by the Stockholm Programme and Europol’s SOCTA report. The underlying theme of the course was how to improve the police cooperation against these relevant threats to world economies and, in a broader sense, to the fundamentals of democratic states. Col. Fabrizio Crisostomi, the coordinator of the event from the Guardia di Finanza Headquarters, presented his opening speech on the activity of the Guardia di Finanza in the fight against Money Laundering, the national legislation and practical measures. Experts’ presentations from Europol and Eurojust were highly appreciated by all of the participants, especially the very interesting case studies presented by Europol. In fact many case studies have been presented too during the course, such as the one on the relation between money laundering and VAT frauds. During the following days high level lecturers took the floor. Prof. Michele Riccardi, University of Milan’s Cattolica University and Transcrime (Joint Research Centre on Transnational Crime) discussed “The identification of beneficial owners in the fight against money laundering” and the results of the EU project on “The mafia investments” whilst the Head of Unit within the Italian Treasury Department lectured about “The role of the Financial Action Task Force” with his presentation. Participants actively took part  in the afternoons in case studies, working group activities and two study visits. The first was to the Nucleo Speciale Polizia Valutaria of the Guardia di Finanza and the second to the Central Bank of Italy, within is locates the Italian Financial Investigation Unit. Very important was the support of the experts of Bulgaria and Romania,  that underlined the strategies of organisation and investigations in the fight against Money Laundering in their countries, and the expert of Greece explained the international institutions and instruments for mutual cooperation. The expert of Hungary found very interesting the course and proposed his country as supporter for the activities of next year. The Italian CEPOL Unit concluded with satisfaction the activities related to the course, but money laundering is still their great job: they are involved in the “Money Laundering on-line module” CEPOL working group and in the application of the contents of the Common Curriculum on Money Laundering at the national level.]]> Courses & Seminars Course Updates Mon, 13 May 2013 16:35:00 +0200 http://www.cepol.europa.eu/index.php?id=news-details&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=519&cHash=0f71d44b78545c8d5d3167d2cab02352 The Hellenic Police Academy has officially launched an online learning Platform for its Police... Secretariat News Tue, 07 May 2013 16:23:00 +0200 http://www.cepol.europa.eu/index.php?id=news-details&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=516&cHash=5e56a375101d38de4059d170056c3c95 This year’s Annual CEPOL Police Research and Science conference will take place from 11 – 13... Conference Invitation

Conference Attendance CEPOL participants have to register via their CEPOL NCPs. Participants, who are not members of the CEPOL network are kindly asked to register their attendance directly to the conference organiser. Please complete the registration form and return it to PRSC2013@dhpol.de by 15 July 2013, stating your package preference. If you are opting for "conference only", you must also make a separate hotel reservation! Early registration is strongly recommended to secure your place!]]> Courses & Seminars Course Updates Tue, 07 May 2013 14:41:00 +0200 http://www.cepol.europa.eu/index.php?id=news-details&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=520&cHash=7c07bc9e16e883026fbd03ac07fe6ab9 The Internet has completely changed the way we meet and communicate on an everyday basis. The Internet has completely changed the way we meet and communicate on an everyday basis. But the borderless world on the Internet has at the same time enhanced new criminal possibilities and the concept of vulnerability has developed in ways that were unknown just a few decades ago. Not least is the Internet-related legislation experiencing a strenuous time as the cybercrime developments are far ahead of the legislative measures. These themes were highlighted and discussed on the CEPOL course MS and union capacities to detect, investigate and prosecute cybercrime (2013/13) which took place in Stockholm 23-26 April 2013. Within the EU cybercrime is prioritised and following that there was a great interest in the course, which in all had 32 participants from 26 countries. A question certain interest is where, from a legislative view, a cybercrime is committed. Doubtless there is an immense need for cooperation as cybercrime sees no borders. The first day started with a presentation on legislation by the Belgian prosecutor Jurgen Coppens who also sees the need for everyone to think preventively as laws cannot provide sufficient protection. The following expert – Jean Dominique Nollet – presented the EC3, which is the recently opened cybercrime unit within Europol. Mr Nollet emphasized the difficulties in forensics with encryption and really knowing what to look for. The day ended with Ola Laurell, former prosecutor at Eurojust, who focused on JITs; Joint Investigation Teams, to be really powerful when investigating cybercrime. On the second day Nicola Dileone of CEPOL identified some of the necessary cornerstones of cybercrime, like cooperating with the private sector, and continued with emphasizing the need for training and certifying of investigators, from the first responder to the level of specially trained EU-prosecutors. In completion Virgil Spiridon from the Romanian Police presented his international study of what constitutes good cybercrime units. The day ended with a study visit to The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency. Best practices were the theme on the following day. Michael Beattie and Nick Bria from the UK Police gave a presentation that highlighted the need for live forensics. They underlined how utterly important these skills are to whether an investigation will lead to charges or not. The Swedish prosecutor Thomas Balter Nordenman continued on the theme and gave some examples of what, from his experiences, have been crucial for cybercrime charges. The final presenter was David Lindahl, an external expert from the Swedish Defence Research Agency. He was a bit critical of how the computer manufacturers sell computers “bit-by-bit” to unknowing customers, who are unlikely to be aware of what their computer is doing or being attacked by. The bottom line was that it is also time for the computer business to take their responsibility.]]> Courses & Seminars Course Updates Fri, 03 May 2013 16:27:00 +0200 http://www.cepol.europa.eu/index.php?id=news-details&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=521&cHash=a9136e9c48ea3a57d18d1394f23d1afe The Police College of Finland in Tampere hosted CEPOL course 47/2013 Joint Investigation Teams... Courses & Seminars Course Updates Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:33:00 +0200 http://www.cepol.europa.eu/index.php?id=news-details&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=514&cHash=e0f5c0cdff5436cde5bc0d775aff9faa The European Commission has published its second annual report on the implementation of the EU... Read the press release Read the report ]]> Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:16:00 +0200 http://www.cepol.europa.eu/index.php?id=news-details&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=513&cHash=4d4d0b2f22a12f15d246f5d519f4349a SIRENE trainers were given the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of the Schengen Information... SIRENE trainers were given the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of the Schengen Information System during a three-day training activity (Course 41/2013) organised by CEPOL in March 2013. In total, 33 participants from EU Member States, Switzerland, Iceland and Lichtenstein attended the course ‘SIS II technical use for SIRENE trainers’, which took place in Eversley, UK. The course prepared SIRENE trainers for the launch of the second generation Schengen Information System, due to take place in early April 2013. The course provided SIRENE trainers with the necessary knowledge to train other SIRENE staff and end-users in the use of the upgraded system. The Schengen Information System is the largest shared database used for maintaining public security, support police and judicial co-operation and managing external border control. Participating states provide entries, called "alerts", on wanted and missing persons, lost and stolen property and entry bans. It is immediately and directly accessible to all police officers at street level and other law enforcement officials and authorities who need the information to carry out their roles in protecting law and order and fighting crime. It covers most of the European Union, together with Norway, Iceland Switzerland and Lichtenstein. The Schengen Information System (SIS I) has been updated and the new second generation of the system – called SIS II – will become operational in early April. SIS II will provide police officers in the Schengen area with an even more sophisticated and technologically advanced tool to help tackle crime. The CEPOL course offered experienced police officers specialized in international police cooperation in-depth training on the new SIS II legal basis, its functionalities, related technical and functional procedures, data amnesty as well as practical skills to work with the new updated system. The trained officers will serve as trainers in their home country and will transfer the acquired knowledge to their colleagues. CEPOL’s partners in organising the course were the European Commission, the EU Agency for operational management of large-scale IT systems in the area of freedom, security and justice (eu-LISA), the Italian Ministry of Interior and the German Federal Criminal Police Office. These partners provided their expertise to create an effective course programme and also provided course trainers. Aija Kalnaja, CEPOL’s Acting Head of Training Unit said, ‘Travelling without border control checks has become part of our life. While millions of citizens benefit from easier travel, we rely on law enforcement to prevent criminals from exploiting the lack of border controls. This CEPOL course means that more law enforcement officers will know how to use SIS II when it is introduced and will be able to take advantage of the faster and more extensive data exchange, maintaining the security of EU citizens and increasing European law enforcement cooperation.’]]> Courses & Seminars Course Updates Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:20:00 +0200 http://www.cepol.europa.eu/index.php?id=news-details&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=511&cHash=029233fb97feeaf0adb85f7464ee0a8d Documentation related to ‘Enhancing European Coordination for National Research Programmes in the... The House’ is now available to CEPOL registered users. The House – a project funded by the European Commission – involves the testing of the provision of coordination standards during major events in Europe. These standards concern key areas which were identified as commonalities of interest as being the basic constituents of major event security planning in Europe requiring further coordination. After the elaboration of these standards in previous projects (most notably EU-SEC and EU-SEC II) their provision is now being tested in The House project. The project involves a Consortium of 24 European Union Member States and will contribute to the elaboration of a common European major events security planning framework and will facilitate the adoption of a common policing approach at European Union level. These two objectives are in full compliance with the provisions of the EU’s main strategic priorities in this field, in particular the Stockholm Programme and Internal Security Strategy, which seeks ‘more effective European law enforcement cooperation’. CEPOL registered users may access documentation at the dedicated e-Net page. For further information, visit The House project website.]]> Knowledge & Research Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:58:00 +0200