Management Board adopts new CEPOL strategy

The new CEPOL strategy 2023-2027 was approved this week in Prague, during the 9^th Management Board (MB) Meeting taking place on 22-23 November.

Following the conclusions of the  8^th Management Board meeting in Lyon (17-18 May), the Executive Director of CEPOL, Ms. Montserrat Marín López, initiated the development of a new strategy by applying a bottom-up approach, ensuring that CEPOL Staff participated actively in the process. The resulting document builds upon the 5-year evaluation report and the observations and recommendations made by the Management Board. 

With this new strategy, CEPOL sets out the pathway to become the EU hub for law enforcement training and provide a concerted and systematic EU approach to training. The agency will continue to foster a common EU law enforcement culture, and promote the accreditation of law enforcement vocational training. In order to achieve these goals, CEPOL will also dedicate efforts to optimise processes, workflows and resources and ensure that appropriate infrastructures are in place, thus maximising its contribution to a robust and strong EU security ecosystem.

On the occasion of the adoption of the new CEPOL strategy, CEPOL Executive Director, Ms. Montserrat Marín López underlined:

Regarding CEPOL’s role in assisting non-EU countries in their law enforcement capacity building activities, she noted:

In Prague, the Management Board also approved the CEPOL Single Programming Document (SPD) for 2023 and was updated, among other topics, on the work of CEPOL’s International Cooperation Projects and the CEPOL Liaison Office in Brussels.