​Eighteen graduates of the two CEPA-OC courses from Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Switzerland, Slovenia and Hungary, had the opportunity to meet again between the 17th and 20th September 2019 at the International Training Centre in Budapest.

The OC-Courses are the English language version of the well-established CEPA Main Courses. The CEPA won the grants of the European Commission for organizing of both OC-Courses. They offered the opportunity to attend the Main Course for the English-speaking police officers in Central Europe, too.

The Deputy Director of the International Training Centre, Ms Colonel Emese Horváczy, opened the event.

The goals of the seminar were to update the knowledge and information on OC-related crimes, to get to know the new offender-specific elements and specific forms of perpetration, and to highlight new methods and tools in the combating and prevention of OC.

One of the main goals of the seminar, according to the motto of the CEPA, was the exchange of practical experience and knowledge and the refreshment of the foreign language skills of the participants.

During the round three working days, the participants listened in a very good seminar atmosphere to the lectures of the speakers - who were mostly the participants of the seminar, i.e. course graduates - about the challenges of combating crime, international criminal police cooperation and the related tasks and solutions.

The range of topics was particularly wide and the participants got to know new phenomena and forms of crime. Particularly interesting were the lectures on the "super recogniser", on trafficking in human beings and corruption cases, further the visiting at the Hungarian Banknote Printing Shareholding Company.

In their evaluation sheets, participants argued that alumni events should also be held in the future, as the network of course graduates is a particularly good and efficient form of international criminal police cooperation.