The Nordic Police Cooperation

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The Nordic Police Cooperation

• Maren Eline Kleiven

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Overview

• Background
• The Nordic Passport Union
• The Nordic Police Cooperation
• PTN
• The Baltic Sea Region
• NBPA
• BSTF and Russia
• Regional Cooperation - challenges

Maren Eline Kleiven
9.4.2009
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Background

• Police Superintendent
• The Norwegian Police University College
• Instructor Eastern Europe
• Masters International Police Science UoP
• Bachelor Specialised Option Course IPC
• Master Module IPC

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The Nordic Passport Union

• Established in1954
• Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland
• Border free zone
• Forerunner to the Schengen Agreement

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The Nordic Police Cooperation

• Nearly 40 years old
• Gentlemans agreement
• Nordic Police Cooperation Agreement 1972
• Investigation and criminal law procedures
• Revised in 2002
• Guidance
• Interpol

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Norwegian and Swedish police cooperates in
Strømstad
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PTN

• Formalised in 1987
• Police, Customs, Nordic
• 36 liaison officers
• Initially illegal smuggling and drugs
• Production and transit countries
• Today generalists
• Also Human trafficking, child pornography

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The Baltic Sea region
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Nordic Baltic Police Academy

• Baltic States Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia
• Integration process into EU
• NBPA
• Training/educating police officers
• Reforming the police

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Batic Sea Task Force

• Organized crime in the Baltic Region
• Need for regional cooperation
• Founded in 1996 by CBSS
• Forum for Police chiefs and Ministers of Justice
• Also other forms of cooperation
• Expert groups
• Training
• Operational projects

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Baltic Sea Task Force

• Crime prevention abroad
• Exchange of information
• All forms of serious international crime
• Common interests and targets
• Projects like stolen vehicles

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BSTF and Russia

• 1998 Operative Committee (OPC)
• OPC coordinating the police cooperation
• Europol expansion 2002
• Russia key external strategic partner
• BSTF assists in establishing and monitoring
  criminal justice cooperation between Russia and
  the Baltic Sea region
• EU Action Plan on common action with Russia

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Regional cooperation - challenges

• BSTF and EU younger than the Nordic Cooperation
• Baltic States are recently reformed
• Trust issues
• Different laws and regulations
• Different criminal justice systems
• Different perceptions of threat

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Conclusion

• The Nordic police cooperation has proven
  successful cooperation across borders is possible
  within existing national and international
  legislation, and
• that a pragmatic approach which includes
  operational measures may be a better way to go
  than finding a joint legal framework which in
  many regions would be unattainable.