European Union Strategic Training Needs Assessment 2022-2025

CEPOL released the European Union Strategic Training Needs Assessment (EU-STNA) 2022-2025 report on 11 March 2022. Published by the EU Agency for Law Enforcement Training every four years, the EU-STNA is a forward-looking analysis that identifies the EU training priorities in the area of internal security. The report is a strategic handbook for providers of law enforcement education and training across the EU. Based on criminal threats identified, it provides guidance on what needs to be trained to help ensure that the learning offer available to law enforcement officials is pertinent and consistent.

Based on the outcome of a comprehensive examination of strategic and policy documents, as well as on consultations with practitioners, experts and stakeholders, this publication identifies what skills gaps should be filled by training so that law enforcement officials stay on the cutting edge of technology, knowledge and information. In particular, the EU-STNA 2022-2025 reveals eight core capability gaps constituting the main areas in which law enforcement officials need capacity-building through training:

• Digital skills and use of new technologies
• High-risk criminal networks
• Financial investigations
• Cooperation, information exchange and interoperability
• Crime prevention
• Document fraud
• Forensics
• Fundamental rights and data protection