​In Hungary, at the Centre for International Continuing Education, the follow-up seminar for CEPA main course graduates of 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003 and 2013 took place between 18-21 September 2018.
The seminar was attended by colleagues from Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland and Hungary. All 26 participants had the opportunity to meet again in Budapest.
The event was opened by the Hungarian member of the CEPA Board of Trustees, Brigadier General Dr. István FARKAS, Director of the Centre for International Training.
The aims of the seminar were to exchange the latest information on investigation methods and international criminal police cooperation, to refresh the foreign language skills of the non-German-speaking participants and to establish and maintain contacts among the seminar participants.
During our week together there was a very good seminar atmosphere. The lectures of the speakers - most of them were participants of the seminar, i.e. course graduates from different years - discussed the challenges of fighting crime, international criminal police cooperation and the related tasks.
It was particularly interesting to learn how the Zurich City Police and the Hungarian National Investigation Office successfully cooperated in 2017 and 2018 on a joint criminal case against drug-related crime with the help of MEPA contacts.
The participants rated the seminar in their report as excellent and super organized. The participants thanked each other for the opportunity to spend 4 days together. They think that the CEPA main course, as well as other CEPA events, and the network of course graduates are a particularly good and efficient form of international criminal police cooperation.