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The objectives of the webinar are to:

• Improve Law Enforcement Agents (LEA) capabilities to respond to serious and organised crime and counterterrorism in the COVID-19 pandemic situation;
• Identify the major impacts that COVID-19 posed to Counterterrorism and Serious and Organised Crime criminal activities;
• Recognise the new threats and vulnerabilities that Terrorists and Organised Criminal groups are exploiting, during the Pandemic Situation;
• Summarize the challenges and difficulties to an effective response of LEA to those new threats.

Objectives of the webinar:

• to provide information on Joint Operational Office Vienna activities against Human Smuggling and Trafficking;
• to explain new modi operandi in the context of COVID-19;
• to raise awareness about the versatility of the following facilitators:

1. Migrant smuggling under the COVID-19 travel restrictions;
2. Police work under the influence of the COVID-19 situation;
3. Use of falsified health certifications for travelling of migrants;
4. Use of the green borders.