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The Iron Road to Security

European col l aboration of Railway Police Forces and Railway Companies . The Iron Road to Security. THE EUROPEAN RAIL CORRIDORS . ROM A NIA THE 4 th AND 9 th EUROPEAN RAIL CORRIDORS. COLPOFER ` S HISTORY

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The Iron Road to Security

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  1. European collaboration of Railway Police Forces and Railway Companies The Iron Road to Security

  2. THE EUROPEAN RAIL CORRIDORS

  3. ROMANIA THE 4th AND 9th EUROPEAN RAIL CORRIDORS

  4. COLPOFER` SHISTORY • COLPOFERis anEuropean collaborative body (special group of UIC, part of the Security Platform) founded in the Netherlands in 1980 by NS and Railway Police • The members of COLPOFER are Railway Companies and Railway Police Forces • Today there are 24 European countries representing 40 Railway Companies and Police Forces enrolled in COLPOFER

  5. ORGANISATION Board • Chairman : Jens Puls - Deutsche Bahn AG • Vice Chairman:Arend Bannink - Niederlande, Korps Landelijke Politiediensten • GeneralSecretary: Gerhard Birkigt - Deutsche Bahn AG • Coordination Group • Chairman • Vice Chairman • General Secretary • Dora Mezek-Kukec (Slovenia) • Alfons Bartels (BMI / Federal Police Germany) • Manuel R. Simons (RENFE- Spain)

  6. FUNCTIONS • Development of strategies and methods to prevent and combat crime on railway premises • Exchange of information and best practices between Railway Police and Railway Security Companies • Providing recommendations to Railway Companies and Police Forces to improve security of railway customers and staff • Recommendations to other bodies involved in or responsible with railway transport security

  7. MEMBERS

  8. COLPOFER - 40 members, 24 countries • Austria: Österreichische Bundesbahnen (ÖBB) / Bundesministerium für Inneres • Belgium: Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Belges (SNCB)/ Police Ferroviaire Fédérale Belge • Bulgaria: Bulgarian State Railways (BDZ) • Croatia hrvatske zeljeznice (HR)/ Security Company RVR • Czech Republic: Ceské Dráhy (CD) Policie Ceské Republiky • France: Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Francais (SNCF) • Germany: Deutsche Bahn AG (DB) / Bundesministerium des Innern • Great Britain: Network Rail / British Transport Police (BTP) • Greece: Hellenic Railways S.A. (CH / OSE) • Hungary: Magyar Államvasutak (MAV) / Hungarian National Police • Italy: Gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) / Ministero dell‘ Interno • Latvia: Latvijas Dzelzcels (LDZ) • Lithuania: AB Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (LG) • Luxemburg: Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Luxembourgeois (CFL) • Netherlands: N.V. Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) Korps Landelijke Politiediensten (KLPD) • Norway: Jernbaneverket • Poland: Polskie Linie Kolejove S.A. (PLK) • Portugal: Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses (CP) • Romania: Compania Nationala a Cailor Ferate Romane S.A. (CFR)/ Ministry of Int., Transport Police/ Autoritatea Feroviara Romana – AFER • Slovakia: Zeleznice Slovenskej Republiky (ZSR) Zeleznicná Polícia Slovenskej Republiky • Slovenia: Holding Slovenske Zeleznice d.o.o. (SZ) • Spain: Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Espanoles (RENFE) Infrastructure Company ADIF • Sweden: Green Cargo AB (SJ) / Banverket (SJ)/ Commutersecurity CSG • Switzerland: Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (SBB)/ Bahnpolizei SECURITRANS

  9. Elements regulating the activity of COLPOFER • Management realised by the Presiding Board and the Coordination Group; • Conferences of the General Assembly, decisions being taken; • Working Groups dealing with issues specified by the General Assembly - such as combating vandalism and graffiti, combating fraud tickets in international traffic, etc.; • Operational collaboration among members to achieve prompt and proper solutions to rail security issues

  10. ACTIVITIES General Assembly(yearly 2 conferences) Coordinationgroup (yearly 4 meetings) Operational and external collaboration Working Groups

  11. Working Groups in Progress - Tickets falsifications / frauds - Collaboration during important events - Security in international freight traffic - Protection against terrorist attacks - Security on railways in South –East Europe (DACIA)

  12. REGIONAL WORKING GROUP“DACIA” • Romania - Romanian Rail Police - AFER, SNTFC CFR CĂLĂTORI SA • Hungary - National Police – Public Order and Traffic Enforcement Department - MAV • Austria - National Police-Unit of Serious International Robbery Crime - OBB

  13. THE AIMS OFTHE WG“DACIA” • Identifying perpetrators who intend or committed crimes in the train “DACIA” • Preventing, reducing and combating crimes against travellers • Improving the safety and securityof the travellers who use this train

  14. THE ACTIVITIES OF THE WG “DACIA” • Direct observations • Meetings having as attendants all members • Intelligence exchange • Developing special police activities • Patrolling the trains ,,DACIA” • Exchanging best practices • Finding solutions to improve the efficiency of activities

  15. RESULTS ACHIEVED by WG “DACIA” • Increasing the safety and welfare of travellers • Identifying authors of crimes committed against travellers • Decreasing the number of crimes committed • Improving the cooperation & intelligence exchange • This Regional WG will be enlarged with some new members (Bulgaria, Ukraine, Moldova)

  16. Finalized Working Groups · Introduction graffiti registration · Educational campaigns · Damage to rail-carried cars · Dangerous interventions on rail traffic • Protection of valuable transports • Illegal entrants on passenger and freight trains · Thefts on passengers trains · Developing COLPOFER‘ s web site

  17. QUESTIONS ?

  18. ROMANIAN RAIL POLICE

  19. THE ROLE AND PLACE OF ROMANIAN RAIL POLICE • Considering its geographical position and the infrastructure network size, Romania act as a turn-table of the continental and intercontinental transport on the main geographic West-East and North-South paths. • Transports and their security have become an extremely serious and complex phenomenon, taking into account damage values and impact on economical, social and political climate, being affected not only national order but even national security. • Police structures having competencies along European transport corridors must realize and ensure internally the safety and security of transports, as well as to improve cooperation with other external structures with responsibilities in this field. • Rail Police maintain public order and safety on rail and rail transport means (rail stations, marshalling yards, inspections on board of passenger cars), carrying out specific activities in order to increase the safety of citizens, population trust and respect towards police in order to obtain the support communities, to prevent and fight against the criminality in the field of rail transports.

  20. THE IMPORTANCE OF RAIL TRANSPORTS • Romanian rail network consists of 13,071 km (8,588 Km electric lines, 1,200 rail stations & marshalling yards -30 big marshalling yards, 120 car check –ups and 50 locomotive & running sheds). Around 68,110 tones of freight are transported on a daily basis. • Constanţa Sea Harbor is the third European harbor as importance and its surface covers 3,626 ha (1,784 shore, 1,842 water surface). It has 137 operation berths,40-42 ships operate daily. The traffic volume average is around 40 million tones/year. It comprises 320 km of rails, 3 railway marshalling yards. Approximately 700 freight wagons are being loaded/unloaded daily.

  21. SHORT HISTORY OF THE ROMANIAN TRANSPORT POLICE - 1929 – it appears the Regulation of Police Service at crossing borders, harbours and railway stations; - 1936 – it has been set up the first Romanian Railway Gendarmerie Legion ; • 1937 - Law 118 regarding exploitation and Romanian Rail Police, with a special chapter for crimes; • 1941-Regulation regarding police service with a dedicated chapter to Rail Police and subchapters regarding rail gendarmerie and its organisation; - 1981- Decree 280 regarding some measures taken to prevent damages on rail system has been published. Transport Police Brigade is established within the General Militia Inspectorate; - 1990 – 2003 Transport Police Brigade has been transformed into Transport Police Directorate having the same competence; - 2003- Transport Police was restructured. Regional & local transport police units were given under the supervision of regional county police departments; • 2005 – According to the 2004-2007 Romanian Police Strategy of Modernisation, Romanian Transport Police has been reorganised. 8 Regional Transport Sections have been set up.

  22. THE NEED FOR REORGANISATION • Distributing territorial structures according to the operational situation; • Not achieving an efficient monitoring of targets on the rail system due to the elimination of specialised operational structures; • The impossibility of carrying out intelligence-operational activities at county level, considering the regional structures of MTCT; • Inefficient patrolling on the rail system, as well as maintaining public order and safety in railway stations; • Inefficiency of activities in the field of rail fraud investigations.

  23. TRANSPORT POLICE ORGANIZATIONAL CHART Transport Police Directorate Regional Transport Police Sections (8) Transport Police County Departments Rail Police Stations (RS, AS, N/MS)

  24. THE COMPETENCE OF TRANSPORT POLICE • Material and territorial competence in direct contact with the structures of Ministry of Transports; • Art. 4 of Law 218/2002 – Romanian Police may be also organized according to some specific national sectors of economy – rail, air and naval transports.

  25. THE MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES OF ROMANIAN RAIL POLICE • Preventing criminality; • Maintaining public peace and order; • Searching and catching perpetrators; • Providing safety to people and goods; • Taking appropriate measures in order to realize safe and secure transports on rail; • Carrying out investigations by using specific procedures provided by the criminal law and special laws; • Co-operating with other institutions responsible for preserving public order in the rail system; • Searching people, weapons, ammunitions, explosives, drugs, stolen goods etc; • Co-operating with internal & international organisations having responsibilities in this special branch.

  26. EVOLUTIONS AND TRENDS IN THE FIELD OF RAIL TRANSPORT • Huge investments are being made in the field of rail transports to improve technical conditions (infrastructure, high speed trains, video surveillance etc); • The number of travellers and rail transports volume will be doubled till 2013; • Increasing the number of private companies involved in rail transports; • Taking into account the trends and the strategy of MTCT (Master Plan of Transport for 2007-2013), Rail Police must adapt its strategy according to the developments in this area.

  27. RTP MAIN OBJECTIVES FOR 2006 • Assuring human and material necessary resources, realising the legislative framework and creating a modern police structure; • Improving the climate of safety and security on rail routes and rail transport means; • Preventing and combating criminality in this field; • Enhancing the quality of police services, increasing population’s level of trust in police and improving the image of Romanian Transport Police; • Becoming compatible similar structures of European Union.

  28. OBJECTIVES ACHIEVED ACCORDING TO THE MANAGERIAL PROGRAM - 2006 • Organising tournaments for 363 vacancies; • Endowing Rail Police with computers, vehicles, specific vests, improving the communications system; • Increasing by 123 % the number of economic discovered crimes; • Increasing by 105% the number of files related to complex crimes; • Achieving a percentage of 45,2% of identified authors in cases with unidentified perpetrators (40% planned); • In cases related to violent crimes the identification percentage of authors was 69,2%; • 784 perpetrators caught and handed over other police units; • 462 local and general fugitives traced, caught and handed over; • Proposals to enhance the legislation on rail transports (GD 203/1994, Law 289/2005, Penal Code); • Realising new partnerships with members of Rail Transport Community; • Improving internal and external co-operation.

  29. THE NEW CONCEPT OF PATROLLING IN THE RAIL SYSTEM - Increasing the number of patrolled trains by 32% and by 53% on international trains; - Preventive measures taken in order to improve the image of Transport Police and Transport Ministry; - Announcing at radio stations the trains patrolled and different preventive measures; - Increasing the number of mixed patrols (35 women hired in 2006, the percentage of women within RTP being 3.51%); - A better co-operation between transport police officers and train personnel; - Decreasing the number of thefts and violent crimes committed on trains; - A better mass media approach; - Establishing partnerships with the Transport Community; - Periodical meetings with representatives of Transport Community.

  30. PREVENTING ACTIONS • 01.01.2006 – 31.08.2006 • Trainsofpassengers patrolled: 101.485 • Freight trains patrolled: 6.190 • Common actions with R.R.C.: 788 • Fraudulent travelers:62.050 • Fines value: 576.600 € • Beggars detected: 1614 • Pickpockets detected: 172 • Minors unwatched over: 4547 • Luggage thieves: 237 Graffiti, violent crimes, luggage thefts, trafficking in drugs, & human beings at low level.

  31. Institutional Marketing • Announcing rail police patrols by radio in railway stations and on trains; • Equipping rail police staff with specific reflecting vests; • Better coverage in mass media of transport police activities, results and trends on this field; • Organising joint actions along with different structures belonging to the Community of Rail Transports; • Realising posters, panels and leaflets with preventive purpose; • Establishing partnerships and realising operational meetings with Rail Transport Community.

  32. Objectives - To collect, develop and analyze intelligence on criminal networks operating in the system of transports; To provide specialized intelligence support and tactical intelligence packages to operational police transport teams; To create and maintain a database specific to the field of transports; To develop inter-agency co-operation in the field of intelligence exchange; To inform senior management by providing a strategic intelligence overview on transport matters. The gathered intelligence is sent to the Central Unit of Intelligence Analyzing which provide us strategic and operational analysis INTELLIGENCE

  33. INTEGRATED COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM • Telephone: • Dispatch TPD – central department of traffic safety • Dispatch regional unit - regional department of traffic safety • Radio-conference system: • Participating to operational meetings • Emission-reception devices: • Linking the regional railway dispatch centres with train personnel(train chief, conductors), locomotive mechanics and the dispatch centres of Transport Police Units

  34. Internal relationships of Romanian Transport Police Ministryof Interior and Administration 8 Regional Sections of Transport Police as follows: 1.Bucureşti 2.Craiova 3.Timişoara 4.Cluj 5.Braşov 6.Iaşi 7.Galaţi 8.Constanţa General Prosecution Department General Inspectorate of Romanian Police County Police Departments General Inspectorate of Romanian Border Police TRANSPORT POLICE DIRECTORATE General Inspectorate of Romanian Gendarmerie Ministry of Public Finance General Department for Emergency Situations Ministry of National Defense Romanian Service of Intelligence Ministry of Public Finance Ministry of Transports, Constructions and Tourism National Antidrug Agency Ministry of Health

  35. TRANSPORT COMUNITY • Structures of the National Police; • Gendarmerie; • General Inspectorate of Romanian Border Police; • Other structures from Ministry of Administration and Interior; • Railway National Companies; • Romanian Naval Authority; • Romanian Aerial Authority; • Private Transport Companies; • General Inspectorate for Situations of Emergency • Territorial Authority for Public Order • Community Police; • Customs National Authority; • Ministry of Public Finance; • Security Companies; • NGO’s etc.

  36. Main Targets for 2007 • Partnership Programme along with all Community of Rail Transports – clear goals & targets in order to improve the safety and security on rail transports; • Continuing the modernization of RTP • Improving the quality of services provided by RTP – better image

  37. External relationships of Romanian Transport Police • COLPOFER member since October 205; • RAILPOL member since December 2005; • AQUAPOL will become a member in 2006 ; • Annual and operational meetings with similar structures from our neighboring countries (Bulgaria, Serbia & Montenegro, Hungary, Ukraine, Moldova); • Contacts with similar structures from the Netherlands, UK, Germany, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Italy, Belgium, France, Spain, USA, Turkey, etc. • Regional Working Group set up with Hungary and Austria in order to prevent and combat crimes on trains using this route (the international train DACIA, route Bucharest-Budapest-Vienna and back).

  38. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS OF ROMANIAN TRANSPORT POLICE

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