Exchange of information
information as the key-factor ?
Chief Commissioner Frans Geysels
Is Information POWER ?
NO but …
Organized information = STRENGTH
Accurate information = ESSENTIAL
Up-to-date information = VALUABLE
Information/Intelligence
PLANNING &
DIRECTION
COLLECTION
DISSEMINATION
PROCESSING
ANALYSIS &
PRODUCTION
Step by step approach
Step 1: Internally
• Use existing information tools
(+ mesure performance within domain of environmental
crime)
• Asside: develop new tools to optimalise flow of
information (Eco-message)
EFA and its major benefits
• Feedback to the field
• Ops analysis
with determination of
- risk groups
- risk behaviour
• Strategic analysis
(image,…)
• Source of historical data
(to support big cases)
• Control audit: 15% infringements
Step by step approach
Step 1: Internally
• Use existing information tools
(+ mesure performance within domain of environmental
crime)
• Asside: develop new tools to optimalise flow of
information (Eco-message)
• Create a network (with focal point = center of expertise)
Environmental Network
Center of expertise
Federal Judicial Police
Federal
Environmental Service
Investigation
capacity
Environment
FGP
AIC
Co-ordinator
Co-ordinator
Contact Point
Comdo
SPN/SPC/WPR
SPN/SPC/WPR
Local
Expertise
Administrations
Contact Point
Local Police
Step by step approach
Step 2: Collaboration on national level
• Theoretic approach:
determine other enforcement bodies
(contacts, determine mutual tools, information exchange,
…)
• Practical (multidisciplinary) approach:
determine possibilities in the field
Multidisciplinary Approach
Environmental Authorities
Police
• Inspection/Supervision
• Report
- administrative
- judicial
• Report
- judicial
- Exchange of
Information
in situ
Local Environmental - Mutual
Support
Crime
in Expertise
and
Training
• Investigation
Local Environmental Crime
Serious Environmental
Crime
Step by step approach
Step 3: Collaboration on international level
• Set-up close collaboration with (neighbour) countries
when mutual intrest
(specific flux of waste, connected means of transport,
common industry,…)
• Becoming active member within international initiatives
(IMPEL/TFS, INECE, Interpol…)
But…
Some legal restrictions
• e.g. Authorities vs. Police
“What is not prohibited is allowed and … what
is not allowed is prohibited !”
• A few sollutions:
- take CA on board as experts
- Depersonalised DB (e.g. EU-TWIX)
- DB privacy commission registration
-…
• Existing channels
- Europol (AWF)
- INTERPOL (ECO-form)
Projected INFOFLUX
GLOBAL
level
UNEP (?)
INECE (?)
INTERPOL
EU
level
IMPEL/TFS
National
Regional
level
(Several)
Environmental
Authorities
EUROPOL
EUROPOL
(Several)
PoliceServices
Customs
?
EuroJust
Prosecutor
Agreement
Agreement
ENVIRONMENTAL
Authorities
WCO
POLICE
CUSTOMS
JUSTICE
International exchange of information
Best practice
Environmental
Authorities
?
Police
Prosecutor
Customs
?
AD HOC BILATERAL
WCO
EUROPOL EU
INTERPOL
AD HOC BILATERAL
Country Y
Prosecutor
Customs
EUROPOL EU
Border
Police
AD HOC BILATERAL
Country X
Environmental
Authorities
AD HOC BILATERAL
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Police
•
•
•
•
Customs
General competence
•
in police matters
Competence in the
enforcement of
environmental legislation
Approachable 24/24
•
Recognizable for the
•
public
Env. authorities
General competence in
•
customs matters
- Transfrontier (EU)
shipment of goods &
waste
Taxes - Tpt
Limited competence in
environmental legislation
Specific competence in
environmental legislation
Custom matters
Environmental issues
EXPERTISE IN
Police matters
Privileged contacts with
Public Prosecutors
Collaboration
And… the Public
prosecutor as the KEYSTONE of penal
enforcement.
INFORMATION JIGSAW
CUSTOMS
POLICE
SERVICE(s)
PUBLIC
PROSECUTOR(s
)
COMPETENT
AUTHORITIES
Chief Commissioner Frans Geysels
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Fritz Toussaintstraat 8,
1050 BRUSSELS, Belgium
00 32 2 642 63 07
00 32 2 644 82 25
[email protected]