WORKSHOP IV How can international cooperation and learning in Law Enforcement benefit from modern te

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WORKSHOP IV How can international cooperation
and learning in Law Enforcement benefit from
modern teaching and training technologies?

• The European Dimension of teaching and lerning
  Why, When and How should we share common
  knowledge and experiences in internal security?
• Ramon Loik
• SKA Välissuhete juht
• Head of International Relations,
• Estonian Public Service Academy

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What is European Dimension?

• The Europeanization as reflection of widening
  (integration horizontally through enlargement)
  and deepening (vertically, through deeper
  integration) of European Dimension.
• The concept could be characterized as
• a model of change
• in the relationship between the EU and the Member
  States,
• which is reciprocal and circular rather than
  unidirectional and linear,
• involving continual interaction, negotiation,
  arguing and persuasion (incl. exchange of best
  practices, coordination etc.) between the various
  actors, where as well aspects of supranational
  approach plays an important role within this
  process.

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What is European Dimension in Education?

• The progress of the Bologna Process meets some
  following common challenges
• Quality Assurance
• The Three Cycle System
• Recognition ECTS / Diploma Supplement,
  Europass, Lisbon Recognition
• Promotion of Mobility
• Student-centered and outcome-based approach From
  reflection to competence
• Recognition of Studies
• Qualifications Framework
• Employability
• Promotion of the European Dimension in Higher
  Education
• Lifelong Learning
• Promoting the European Higher Education Area
  (incl. in a global setting), and European
  Research area etc.

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European Police College (CEPOL) Vision on
e-learning

• E-learning can be used in different ways
• Self-paced or Self-directed Learning learning
  experiences that the learner completes
  individually, at their own speed and in their own
  time, such as interactive, Internet-based or
  CD-ROM training. With a potential target group of
  about 200,000 senior police officers,
  geographically spread all over the EU this way of
  learning can be very efficient for CEPOL, and
  will be introduced in the very near future.
• Blended Learning As one of a mix of ways of
  delivering a course. In the case of e-learning it
  does not replace but rather supports the more
  traditional ways of learning, like class-room or
  face-to-face learning.
• For CEPOL, promoting the establishment and
  maintenance of sustainable professional networks,
  the discussion-environment is an important part
  of the e-learning environment. The same applies
  to the knowledge environment containing good
  practices and scientific research
• https//www.cepol.europa.eu/index.php?ide-learn
  ing

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What else is going on

• In addition to general education programmes like
  Socrates, Leonardo and Youth, the European
  Commission has launched training programmes
  specifically adapted to law-enforcement
  professionals such as the Grotius, Falcone and
  STOP programmes. The AGIS programme (Council
  Decision of 22 July 2002 (2002/630/JHA)
  establishing a framework programme on police
  judicial cooperation in criminal matters is meant
  to co-finance projects of a maximum duration of 2
  years involving at least 2 Member States in the
  field of training for legal practitioners and
  law-enforcement officials.
• In the past five years, the Grotius programme
  cofinanced 210 projects (seminars, conferences,
  exchanges, studies) for a total amount of EUR10
  million to enable professionals in EU MS and
  candidate countries to meet and exchange ideas
  and experiences.

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Probably the most successful learning network in
the World so far
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Almost everyone has this one
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Model of Local Isolated Islands This is what we
normally have in LEIS
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Model of Centre-Building
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Model of Connected Local Centres
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Model of Flowers
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Networks have potential for flexible Project
initiatives
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General Aims of CEPOL Common Curricula

• Increasing understanding of the framework of
  police cooperation with regard to political
  situations and developments, economic situations
  and developments as well the repercussions of
  these on policing
• Technological developments and the effects on
  police cooperation (for example Cyber Crime and
  the urgent need for international police
  cooperation in that field)
• Creating an understanding of the relevant current
  legislation concerning police cooperation in
  Europe and beyond. This includes strategic and
  tactical legislation such as European Arrest
  Warrant and the Prym Treaty assessing the
  strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
  (SWOT Analysis) of Joint Investigation Teams, and
  the procedures of strategic cooperation
• The organization and competencies of national,
  European and International agencies and networks
  in police and criminal justice cooperation (for
  example Eurojust, Interpol) to study relevant
  cases with regard to international cooperation
  and analyze the potential ways to solve them by
  various methods of international police
  cooperation to sample and analyze the best
  practices
• To develop visions of enhanced methods of police
  cooperation on a strategic and operational level.

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Tasks, Challenges Opportunities 1

• Development of coherent and sustainable
  cooperation between different Internal Security
  Authorities and Law Enforcement Agencies (police,
  rescue, border guard, local authorities etc.) up
  to EU-level.
• Development of flexible regional and
  transnational networks and joint training
  environments for exchange of analyzes,
  evaluations, and the best practices between
  specialists and experts, decision-makers,
  scientists, and educational departments of public
  service incl. improvement of different e-learning
  capabilities.
• Development of innovative, evaluation- and
  knowledge-based training methods, -tools, and
  -environment for joint exercises both operational
  and staff leaderships levels, especially in
  context of new security threats and its
  challenges, incl. developments of Virtual
  Training Exercises (VTE) potential

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Tasks, Challenges Opportunities 2

• Development of compatibility of legislation and
  procedures between trans-national Law Enforcement
  Agencies, incl. aspects of joint exercises and
  action.
• Development of both graduate and post-graduate
  common curricula(s) of Crisis Management,
  Internal Security and Law Enforcement with
  sustainable and inter-connected system of further
  professional developments.
• Improvement of preparedness, cooperation, and
  coordination between national and regional Public
  Authorities and Law Enforcement Agencies via
  networks development and modern teaching methods,
  -tools, and joint operational/leadership
  trainings.
• Improvement of common curricula(s), training
  environment, and educational quality of public
  safety and security officials in national,
  regional, and EU-levels.

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Tasks, Challenges Opportunities 3

• Modernization and optimal use of resources of
  practical joint trainings both national and
  international levels.
• Development of instruments, methods and
  techniques both training and operational use in
  the fields of crime prevention and crisis
  management for acquiring adequate competencies.
• Exchange and dissemination of information,
  experiences/expertise and best practices between
  both EU countries and the agencies responsible
  for the protection of critical infrastructures/env
  ironment.

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Tasks, Challenges Opportunities 4

• Improvement and development of the relationships
  between Public Authorities, educational and
  science, RD bodies of Internal Security and Law
  Enforcement.
• Improvement of knowledge, cooperation and culture
  of trust of the EU member states protection
  systems, law enforcement agencies and emergency
  organizations.
• Enhancement of capacity and flexibility to share
  good practices as well as lessons learned via
  further creation of international contact
  networks between different authorities, and
  public service institutions, incl. development of
  e-competence training centers etc.