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SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE Regional Center for Combating Transborder Crime

SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE Regional Center for Combating Transborder Crime. SECI Center: An Efficient Regional Tool for Combating Organized Crime Developments in Justice and Home Affairs in Romania - Panel Discussion - Vienna, October 15-16, 2004. HISTORY.

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SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE Regional Center for Combating Transborder Crime

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  1. SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN COOPERATIVE INITIATIVERegional Center for Combating Transborder Crime SECI Center: An Efficient Regional Tool for Combating Organized Crime Developments in Justice and Home Affairs in Romania - Panel Discussion - Vienna, October 15-16, 2004

  2. HISTORY • In April 1998, at the meeting in Geneva, the SECI Agenda Committee adopted a Romanian proposal for establishment of the Regional Center in Bucharest; • First negotiation meeting among the member countries in May, 1998 - representatives from customs and police • On May, 26, 1999 signing the Agreement on Cooperation to Prevent and Combat Trans-border Crime • June 1999 - October 2000 - process of ratification of the Agreement • November 2000 - the SECI Center became operational

  3. 12 MEMBER COUNTRIES Albania Bosnia Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Greece Hungary Moldova FYRO Macedonia Romania Serbia Montenegro Slovenia Turkey

  4. ADVANTAGES • Police and Customs working together • Working methods • - information exchange • - specialized Task Forces • Task Force activities • - regional operations • - coordinated investigations • - strategic analysis • - trainings

  5. SECI Centers’ TASK FORCES • 1. Trafficking in Human Beings • 2. Anti-Drug • 3. Financial and Computer Crime • 4. Anti-Smuggling and Anti-Fraud • 5. Stolen Vehicles • 6. Anti-Terrorism • 7. Trafficking of Small Arms and Light Weapons • 8. Trafficking of Weapons of Mass Destruction

  6. RESULTS - OPERATIONS MIRAGE

  7. Anti - Drug REGIONAL OPERATIONS CONTAINMENT I – 2002 - Operation Containment CONTAINMENT II – 2003 - Operation Orient Express - Operation Route E 70 - Operation Speedway CONTAINMENT III – 2004 - Operation Safe Haven

  8. SEIZURES – CONTAINMENT I and II • Several Drug Trafficking Networks were dismantled and 110 persons were arrested during Containment I and II

  9. STOLEN VEHICLES • Operation ROAD SHOW 2003 • Operation ROAD SHOW 2004

  10. Cooperation between law enforcement and judicial authorities – essential for an efficient fight against trans-border crime South East European Prosecutors’ Advisory Group (SEEPAG) established in 2003 Working groups to be set up in the near future in order to implement better legal solutions PROSECUTORS’ ADVISORY GROUP (SEEPAG)

  11. SECI CENTER - MODEL for GUUAM • Extension of the SECI Center model for GUUAM countries (Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Moldova) • GUUAM – Virtual Law Enforcement Center • Inter-agency co-operation in the field of drug trafficking • Anti-Drug Center in Tashkent (6 months) with the participation of GUUAM, Central Asia and Russia • Close co-operation with the SECI Center

  12. EU ASSESSMENT MISSION • European Commission assessment on the SECI Center • Recognized positive achievements and great potential • European Union support for the SECI Center • Recommendations on short, medium and long term • SECI Center – Regional EUROPOL Office in the future

  13. Role of ROMANIA • Romania – initiator, member and host country • More than 4 million US dollars invested in SECI Center • Coordinator of two Task Forces: • Trafficking in Human Beings • Weapons of Mass Destruction • Engine of information exchange in SEE • Future coordinator of two Task Force Sub-Groups: • Plastic Card Frauds • Cyber-Crime

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