22/2025/ONS: Environmental crime

The aim of this onsite activity is to:

• improve the capability of law enforcement agencies tackling environmental crime, with special regard to illicit waste trafficking and illicit wildlife trafficking in the cross-border scope of environmental crime by sharing best practices of the respective European member states` law enforcement agencies connected with known illicit waste trafficking routes and by exchanging the experience with financial investigation and intelligence and investigative cyber investigations in the environmental crime cases;
• provide evaluation of commonly used and created methods of inspection and investigation of waste crime and wildlife crime, and comparison of their effectiveness and possibilities of using international cooperation.

EMPACT training activity

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Combating new forms of organised crime requires more cooperation between police and gendarmes, customs officers, border guards, judges, and prosecutors. EU institutions, agencies and Member States work together to tackle organised and serious international crime through a permanent and key instrument: the European Multidisciplinary Platform Against Criminal Threats (EMPACT).

CEPOL plays a crucial role in the EMPACT mechanism through the provision of specialised training and the identification of training needs within each common security threat. Every year, CEPOL provides a comprehensive training package for each common EU crime priority consisting of onsite, online and exchange training activities.

Check more of CEPOL's EMPACT training activities here.