3099/2025/WEB 'Ketamine retail markets'

This webinar aims to introduce law enforcement and judicial officers into the phenomenon of illicit ketamine markets in Europe, with a particular focus retail markets. 

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

• Describe the ketamine retail market in Europe, with particular focus on Austria, Belgium, and the Netherlands;
• Describe the characteristics of ketamine distribution through mail and postal parcels as well as how a system of risk assessment and flagging can address challenges faced by law enforcement and postal inspection services;
• List examples of online distribution of ketamine;
• Describe the ketamine retail market from a drug testing service perspective.

EMPACT training activity

Combatting 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.