The follow-up seminar for graduates of CEPA special courses of the years 1994, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2014, 2015 and 2016 took place in Hungary at the Centre for International Training between 11-15 July 2022; a total of 20 participants had the opportunity to meet again in Budapest.

The event was opened by the Hungarian CEPA Board of Trustees member, Brigadier General Dr. István FARKAS, Director of the Centre for International Training.

The objectives of the seminar were achieved: both the exchange of the latest information in the field of international border police cooperation and the strengthening of contacts among the seminar participants.

During the week together, there was an excellent seminar atmosphere. The speakers of the lectures were mostly participants of the seminar, i.e. course graduates from different years.

One of the invited speakers was Ministerialrat Dr. Thomas Herko, BMI liaison officer in Hungary, who gave an interesting lecture on how Austrian security interests are represented abroad. Brigadier General Dr. Sándor Fórizs, the former deputy rector of the Police College in Budapest, provided the participants with important information on the system of (border) police academic education. In the person of Dr. Sándor Fórizs, we were able to welcome that participant to the follow-up seminar who attended the earliest of the convened cohorts, the class of 1999. It is gratifying to see that CEPA continues to encourage active participation after almost 25 years.

The group had a technical excursion at the National Investigation Office in Székesfehérvár, where Pol. Captain Máté Zámbó, Chief Investigator at the Department for Combating International Crime gave an excellent overview of the fight against illegal migration in Hungary with the help of the camera surveillance system in the road network.

After this week of lectures, technical excursions at the National Bureau of Investigation as well as at the banknote printing house, with cultural programmes such as the visit to the Parliament or the visit to the Benedictine Abbey in Tihany - it was once again made clear how the concept of "CEPA family" can be lived.