3091/2025/WEB – ‘Data-driven responses to counter-smuggling’

The aim of this webinar is to showcase how the International Organization for Migration’s Data Exchange Solution for Counter-smuggling (IOM’s DESC) Initiative enhances the fight against migrant smuggling by turning border data into actionable intelligence and strengthening international cooperation through data sharing, AI, and capacity building. 
By the end of this webinar, the audience will be able to:

• Understand how the DESC Initiative supports counter-smuggling efforts through data-driven approaches;
• Identify key tools and components of the DESC platform, including AI-powered dashboards and Copilot;
• Recognise emerging smuggling patterns using shared migration data.

EMPACT training activity

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.