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The main aim of the project is to strengthen the capacity of the Latvian State Police in combating economic crimes by improving both the technical capacity of the responsible departments and raising the knowledge and skills of officers, to make the process of the investigation of economic crimes more effective and reliable. There will be activities aimed at improving the professional skills and improving inter-agency cooperation, which follows the recommendations in the Moneyval report.
The main activities in the project include:
- strengthening the economic crime case-processing capacity, by
- upgrading the infrastructure of the forensic laboratories at the Forensic Service Department;
- introducing new forensic methods;
- training of staff (seminars, training sessions, conferences);
- supporting the capacity development of law enforcement authorities, by
- training of professionals on the combating of economic crime and corruption
- installing a new analytical tool
- expanding and upgrading the Economic Crime Enforcement Department;
- performing a gap analysis on existing cooperation and coordination mechanisms;
- capacity building and peer exchange visits to enhance knowledge and skills of the Latvian State Police;
- peer exchange visits on good practices regarding investigation of complex crimes.