UK Government launches consultation on 2025 Border Strategy
UK Government launches consultation on the 2025 Border Strategy, which will set its vision for world’s most effective border by
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Author: Tony Kingham
New EU Security Union Strategy: connecting the dots in a new security ecosystem includes steps to strengthen border security legislation with better use of existing databases, and an agenda for tackling organised crime, including human trafficking, drugs and firearms
Today, the European Commission sets out a new EU Security Union Strategy for the period 2020 to 2025, focusing on priority areas
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Gibraltar squadron to receive two cutting-edge Fast Patrol Craft
A £9.9 million contract has been signed with Merseyside-based Marine Specialised Technology (MST) for two new boats to replace the
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Another criminal group is broken
The indictment against 10 members of an organized criminal group dealing in smuggling of tobacco products ends the investigation conducted
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AAI to procure 198 body scanners for 63 Indian airport
It has been reported in The Hindu newspaper that the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has decided to procure 198
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Migrant smugglers are profiting from travel restrictions
Measures to contain COVID-19 are increasing demand for smuggling and subjecting migrants to even riskier conditions Travel and movement restrictions
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Iris ID Partners with Securiport
Iris ID has announced it has entered into an agreement to provide its contactless IrisAccess biometric readers to Securiport, a
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Smuggling worth millions frustrated
The smuggling of over 18 tons of dried tobacco with a value of nearly PLN 9.5 million was thwarted, 13
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Borders of the future – is data sharing the answer?
With the impact of COVID-19 on cross border traffic, there has never been a greater need reimagine the way our
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Nearly 20 million illicit pharmaceutical items were taken off the market in a regional operation coordinated by INTERPOL across the Middle East and North Africa
COVID-19: a new trend in pharmaceutical crime Running from 1 February to 1 April 2020, the operation coincided with the
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320 tonnes of potentially dangerous dairy products taken off the market in operation OPSON IX targeting food fraud
Europol and INTERPOL coordinated operation OPSON 2020 which targeted trafficking of counterfeit and substandard food and beverages. The ninth operation of
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NEC and SITA Announce Global Aviation Partnership Agreement to Deliver the Future of Digital Identity at Airports
NEC and SITA have announced a global partnership to develop market leading solutions that enable a secure walk-through travel experience
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OSCE seminar explores role of suspicious transaction analysis and financial investigation in combating money laundering and related crimes in Turkmenistan
Sharing advanced experience in the analysis of suspicious transactions reports (STR) and further financial investigation is the objective of an
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Border Security After the Pandemic: The Urgent Need for Remote and Touchless Identity Services
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted almost every aspect of contemporary life. Border security is no exception. Agencies are looking urgently
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Prosecute human traffickers and deliver justice to victims: OSCE Alliance Conference against Trafficking in Persons calls for an end to impunity
Identifying effective ways to improve the prosecution of human traffickers is the focus of the 20th high-level OSCE Alliance Conference
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The European Union has provided front-line document inspection equipment to the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) to support the Georgian government in combating irregular migration and cross-border crime
At an event at Tbilisi Airport, the EU and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) donated 60 pieces of advanced
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Mexico and Europol sign working arrangement on security matters
The Mexican Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC) and the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) signed
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OSCE and UN Office on Drugs and Crime sign 2020-2022 joint action plan
OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger and the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Ghada
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