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Mr President, the ALDE Group supports the rapporteur and congratulates him very much for his work. We shall be voting in favour.
This is only one small step in the massive challenge we face in fighting cross-border organised crime, given the open borders we have in Europe which criminals utilise and cross so easily. There is a great deal more to do. I want to put a suggestion to you as a next step.
Probably the biggest benefit of the European Police College will be policemen getting to know each other and working together for the first time. This is so important because today, that is the way in which we fight organised crime. At present, when one hears about a crime across a border, policemen pick up the telephone and say ‘Well, I know somebody over there. I think I can work with him’. The theoretical idea of Joint Investigation Teams is not working. There is political interference, things are going slowly, they are just not working and, at the moment, organised cross-border crime is being fought by policemen with personal connections. If they do not have them, things do not work.
Commissioner, there is no facility for policemen across Europe to find contacts unless they already know them. There is no central point in the EU where policemen can go to find their contact in, for example, Lithuania, Portugal, the UK or Italy. They cannot find their connections unless they know them personally. Could you, Commissioner, therefore propose a directive, budget or whatever is necessary to set up a central information point where the names and telephone numbers of the people responsible in the 25 countries can be reached quickly before criminals escape?"@en1
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