GERMANY: EU security Commissioner Franco Frattini calls for more co-operation between police forces

Record ID: 588975

  • Title: GERMANY: EU security Commissioner Franco Frattini calls for more co-operation between police forces
  • Date: 30th January 2008
  • Summary: (EU) BERLIN, GERMANY (JANUARY 29, 2008) (REUTERS) CONGRESS CENTRE WITH SECURITY AND POLICE OUTSIDE FLAGS FLYING IN THE WIND POLICEMAN PATROLLING
  • Embargoed: 14th February 2008 12:00
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  • Location: Germany
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Police,European Union
  • Reuters ID: LVAAUMZ7Q3E7B86YP376STIXCZR2
  • Story Text: European Union Justice and Security Commissioner Franco Frattini has called for more co-operation between EU police forces following the recent lifting of border controls, while protesters have demonstrated outside the venue.
    Franco Frattini, EU justice and security commissioner, has called for more co-operation between EU police forces. Following the recent lifting of border controls "a culture of co-operation and trust" was needed, Frattini said at a police congress in Berlin on Tuesday (January 29). Data and information needed to be exchanged quicker and easier in order to fight crime.
    "To work together, we need mutual trust. And to tackle security threats, information sharing is only one part of our required response. A multi-disciplinary approach involving police, customs and border protection avoids duplication, wasting resources and helps build a culture of co-operation and trust," Frattini said.
    About 150 protesters gathered near the congress venue, demonstrating against heightened security measures. Left wing protesters clad in black sported banners reading "security costs freedom". Police body-searched several demonstrators.
    Fears that hordes of illegal immigrants would pour into the European Union once border controls for nine mostly Eastern European nations were abolished just more than a month ago appear, at least for now, to have been unfounded.
    Governments in Germany, Austria, Poland and the Czech Republic surveyed by Reuters said there was no evidence of a rise in either illegal immigration or crime since the EU's Schengen zone was enlarged on December 21 -- although the EU's own border agency says it is too early to draw conclusions.
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