From 16 September to 11 October 2019 the 25th CEPA Special Course will take place. The course will be held at four locations in the Czech Republic, Germany, Slovenia and Austria.

On 16 September 2019 this course on "Cross-border cooperation in compensatory measures and border police tasks" was opened in Holešov/CZ by Mr Martin Novotný, Deputy Head of the Police School in Holešov.

The representative of the Central Coordination Office of CEPA in Austria, Chief Inspector Johannes Tober, welcomed the participants and thanked the organisers of the first course week from the Czech Ministry of the Interior and the Police School in Holešov. The necessity of this training, which is unique in Europe in this way and on this subject, was mentioned.

The 23 participants from the CEPA countries will be presented in 4 weeks at locations in the Czech Republic, Germany, Slovenia and Austria the working methods of the police units in the individual CEPA countries in the field of border surveillance. Speakers from Slovakia, Switzerland and Hungary, together with national speakers from the course locations, will give lectures on border police tasks.

The course graduates will also get to know operational procedures in the individual CEPA states in the course of excursions and practical exercises.
 
Several workshops will be held on the subject of "Digitisation in the performance of (border) police tasks". At the end of the course on 11 October 2019 in Vienna, participants will present the results of their workshop work to a panel of experts.