Serious crime does not know any borders. And it is certainly not old-fashioned border controls that stop it. This requires a close and systematic cooperation between national police forces. EUROPOL is the EU agency, which ensures a very close and intensive police cooperation between all 28 EU-member states. It was created in 1993, has its headquarters in The Hague and has today about 900 staff. It launches around 18.000 cross-border investigations every year.
From May 2017 this agency will be further strengthened by becoming a full part of EU jurisdiction.
A former leading Danish intelligence officer said recently that national agencies would never dream of giving names of suspects to the police in other countries. First of all, I think he is wrong. And secondly, if he were right, the national agencies better dream differenly! Otherwise, it is only the serious criminals who profit!
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