​From 28 to 30 January 2020 the course instructors' conference for the 26th CEPA Special Course 2020 took place at the Bavarian Police Training Institute (BPFI) in Ainring/Germany.

The course instructors and border police experts from the seven CEPA countries planned the schedule and content of this CEPA training course, which will take place in Michalovce, Ljubljana, Deggendorf and Budapest.

The CEPA Special Course will last four weeks and will accommodate 24 participants in total. The participants will be sent from the seven CEPA countries. The course duration of four weeks requires that two CEPA countries will be responsible for the content at each of three course locations. Since the course will be ceremonially concluded in Budapest last week, the course content and the programme will be planned by Hungary alone.

The course will open on 07.09.2020 in Michalovce/Slovakia and end on 02.10.2020 in Budapest. During this time the participants will travel continuously from one location to another. In the next few weeks the special course will be advertised for application in the individual countries.

In the course of the course, experts from the CEPA countries will present the participants with the latest trends and methods for combating border police crime. International and regional cooperation will be the main focus. Current illegal migration will also be a special focus of this course. Technical and new measures in border surveillance will round off the programme.