BOSNIAN BORDER POLICE AND SIPA OFFICERS COMPLETED EUROPOL TRAINING

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (September 28,2007) - The Bosnian Border Police Officers and the Bosnian State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) Officers took part in a Strategic Crimes Analysis training session provided by Europol’s Serious Crime Department from 17 to 26 September. The course provided them with detailed information on how to analyze crime and criminal networks at a national level.

“This training had been seen as a priority by the European Union Police Mission to Bosnia (EUPM) for quite a while and the Mission agreed to pay for the trainers’ travel and accommodation expenses,” explained Hamish Fink, EUPM’s Human Resource and ICU Adviser to SIPA.

“EUPM and SIPA have translated all the material associated with the course, which is substantial, and we have also provided language assistants to translate during the course,” he went on, adding that SIPA themselves provided accommodation and work material for the training.

The students who successfully completed the course received certificates.