10 March 2017
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Europol "threat assessment" paves the way for increased operational police cooperation
10.3.17
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The report establishes ten "priority crime" areas for EU agencies, institutions and national authorities to focus on: currency counterfeiting, cybercrime, drug trafficking, environmental crime, fraud, intellectual property crime, organised property crime, migrant smuggling, trafficking of firearms and trafficking in human beings. These are complemented by the "cross-cutting threats" of corruption, countermeasures against law enforcement, criminal finances including money laundering, document fraud, extortion, and the online trade in illicit goods.
These will serve as the basis for enhanced operational police cooperation in the years to come, with the Council of the EU's Standing Committee on Operational Cooperation on Internal Security (COSI) currently in the process of drawing up a set of conclusions that will set out the framework for cooperation between 2018 and 2021.
Statewatch is also publishing here a note from Europol discussing the "major strategic changes identified by the Presidency" for the forthcoming 2018-21 policy cycle.
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