​Overall 25 CEPA Main Course alumni of the seven CEPA States had the opportunity to meet together in the center of international advanced training in Budapest/HUN.

The event was opened by the CEPA committee member Brigadier Dr István FARKAS, director general of the center of international advanced training.

The aim of the seminar was primarily the actualization of the state of knowledge and information in terms of OC relevant offences, the acquaintance of new offender specific attributes and special modality of crime, as well as the identification of new measures and methods for the fight against and the prevention of OC. 

One of the important goals of the seminar was according the CEPA slogan naturally the exchange of knowledge from experiences in the past and the refreshment of the foreign language competence of the non-German speaking participants. 

During the three working days the participants of the seminar, who were all alumni of CEPA Main Courses, as well as the course instructors gave lectures on challenges with combating crime, international crime investigation cooperation and the challenges and approaches connected to that.

The spectrum of the topics was specifically broad and the participants learned about new phenomenon and special modalities of crime. Remarkable exciting were the lectures about such cases, where the clarification would have been very unlikely without international cooperation between public authorities and colleagues of the CEPA States.

During the discussion about actual CEPA questions and the achieved successes based on CEPA activities the participants completely argued that the CEPA presentation as well as the alumni network applies for an outstanding and efficient form of international crime investigation cooperation.