3017/2024/WEB 'EUROPOL's role in exchanging information concerning firearms-related crime (weapons and explosives)’

The aim of this webinar is to raise awareness among EU Member States and countries with which EUROPOL has operational agreements of the potential of EUROPOL to improve the intelligence picture and to initiate criminal investigations to combat firearms (weapons and explosives) crime in the EU. 

By the end of this webinar, the audience will be able to:

• discuss the role of EMPACT FIREARMS in promoting the exchange of information and the improvement of the intelligence picture;
• explain the important role of the National Firearms Focal Points (NFFPs) in the exchange of information and their functions;
• identify EUROPOL's role in the exchange of information on firearms crime through its Information Exchange System and the products produced by analysis;
• describe the type of information that needs to be collected at national level to improve the intelligence picture and to initiate criminal investigations to combat firearms crime (weapons and explosives) in the EU;
• list EUROPOL's capabilities to support the investigation of firearms crime (weapons and explosives).

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.