CEPOL welcomes High Level delegation from the Polish Ministry of Interior

On Tuesday 22 August 2017, CEPOL’s Head of Operations Mr Detlef Schroeder and his Team welcomed a high level delegation from the Ministry of Interior and Administration of Poland, led by Deputy State Secretary Mr Tomasz Zdzikot.

The two sides expressed their satisfaction with the state of play of their cooperation, highlighting the important role of CEPOL in fostering European law enforcement cooperation via learning, and the active contribution Poland gives to CEPOL and its training activities. The delegations explored, among other issues, cooperation in terrorism and cybercrime as a key challenges affecting Europe, and expressed the mutual wish to further strengthen their links, in particular in view of the establishment of CEPOL Centers of Knowledge, an instrument by which CEPOL intends to reinforce training partnerships in the EU with a view to providing even better and more sustainable support to the European law enforcement community via its framework partners.

Poland has been a very active contributor to CEPOL, with participation peaking at 114 trainees and 25 experts for 77 residential courses in 2016, and an impressive number of 630 participants to 87 online learning activities in the same year.