​On 9 October 2015 the completion ceremony of the 21 CEPA Special Course “Cross-Border Co-Operation on Compensatory Measures and on Border Actions” took place in the premises of the International Centre for Advanced Training of the Ministry of the Interior of Hungary. Several high ranking officials attended this event.

From the 14 September until the 9 October 2015 18 police officers from the seven CEPA Member States had the opportunity to participate in this Course; lasting for four weeks. The course took place at the locations Holesov, Bad Endorf, Ljubljana and Buapest.

Main emphasis was placed on the most recent developments in investigating and combatting strategies in the field of compensatory measures within the internal borders of the EU and their results resp. impact on the various forms of criminality. It goes without saying that plenty of room was given to the highly topical subject of “mass migration” and “migration flows towards Europe”, which were discussed into depth and in a broad context within this 21st Special Course.

The findings of the workshop were based upon the topic “mass migration” and were focussed on the most recent developments, which had been elaborated by the course participants in written and presented in front of a forum of international high-ranking representatives. The results of these workshops dealing with this issue were not only a “hot topic”, but confirmed moreover the very tense situation in Europe from the perspective of police officers of the CEPA Member States.

The Deputy Head of the Department for Border Police Affairs of the State’s Police Presidium of Hungary, Lieutenant Colonel Mag. László VÁJLOK highlighted in his ceremonial address the importance of the CEPA in the context of international police co-operation. The spokesperson of the Course, a German police officer, underlined in his speech the uniqueness of the advanced training of the CEPA and thanked all officials responsible for the preparation and the implementation of this Course.

The Director-General of the International Centre for Advanced Training of the Hungarian Ministry of the Interior, Dr. István FARKAS handed over the certificates to the participants who passed successfully the Course.

To sum it up, the 21st CEPA Special Course ended as a great achievement in the field of “border policing” and proved the fact that in situations like the current one international police co-operation in the training fields, as provided by the CEPA are indispensable.