Activities calendar

Raise awareness of CEPOL and the training opportunities/tools that it offers to law enforcement personnel and promote a European law enforcement training culture (for Greek native speakers).

In this webinar, the experts will:

• Underline CEPOL’s role in the field of law enforcement cooperation through learning.
• Illustrate CEPOL’s training portfolio and its components.
• Justify the relevance of training provided by CEPOL in everyday law enforcement work.
• Expand on the added value of CEPOL’s e-learning capacities in a law enforcement environment.
• Familiarise the Greek police personnel with the many tools and functions that CEPOL has to offer them in their everyday professional lives.
• Introduce CEPOL to Greek Law Enforcement Personnel outside the Police structures (Coast Guard, Border Guards, Customs, Judicial authorities, etc), in line with the extended mandate that encompasses a wider target group.

The objective of the webinar is to introduce and raise awareness about the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT):

• understanding the role and current activities of the J-CAT in combating complex cyber threats worldwide together with Europol’s EC3
• understanding the cooperation possibilities with/within J-CAT
• introducing the schemes how to participate in the J-CAT

The aim of the webinar is to introduce the Unified Register of the Baltic Forensic Science Experts developed by the State Forensic Science Bureau of Latvia in co-operation with Estonian and Lithuanian forensic science institutions within the framework of the project “Find a Forensic Expert” (JUST/2014/JACC/AG/E-JU/6963) co-funded by the European Union Justice Programme.

Share experience regarding the use of the forensic expert register as a tool:

• to find forensic experts in criminal, administrative and civil proceedings, including cross-border cases;
• to ascertain competence and qualification of forensic experts and their rights to perform forensic examinations;
• to find contacts of forensic experts in another country.

To explain how criminologists use different theories to study the development of criminal careers. Traffic psychologists focus on similar approaches. The faculty Traffic Science & Traffic Psychology has been studying the intersections with a Master-Thesis and the research-project LAWIDA, a longitudinal analysis regarding risk-taking aptitudes of juvenile in the age of 14 to 18.

Attendants are informed about the findings of the Master-Thesis and the research project LAWIDA and gain some ideas of prevention focussing both aspects - traffic safety and crime control.

The overall objective of this online training event is to enhance knowledge on the crime of forest and waste fires and in particular on the relevant emergency response, intelligence and investigative measures that are applied by the Member States` competent authorities.

In the first part of the webinar a Portuguese and an Italian officer will reflect on recent forest fire cases and showcase their national environmental crime protection, emergency response and investigative mechanism. The experts will demonstrate good practices on coordinated multi-agency response, share innovative – structural and technological – solutions but will also discuss difficulties and limitations in the field. In the second part of the webinar Italian investigators will exhibit organised crime groups engagement in waste fires with particular attention on typical crime patterns, and the intelligence collection and investigation methods adopted by Italian specialised agencies. Contributing experts are operational officers involved in daily investigative work and will share their expertise via the presentation of the latest case examples.

The aim of the webinar is to raise awareness on the importance of establishing Focal Points in all EU countries and best practices for the implementation of the Focal Points.

Child like sex dolls are an emerging threat in the area of child sexual exploitation, some Member States are already working on this but some are not yet aware, thus this webinar aims to:

- Introduce the topic of Child Obscene Objects

- Describe the measures that are in place and could be applied across Europe

- Share tips and good practices

The aim of the course is to:

• Understand the specific advantages of open source intelligence as well as be aware of the limitations and considerations;
• Describe available sources of open source intelligence;
• Explore the information available in various open sources, including social networks, blogs, forums and news sites.