Documents – Safety and Control, including Tactical ID-control

Project facts

Project promoter:
Warsaw Metropolitan Police(PL)
Project Number:
PL-HOMEAFFAIRS-0004
Status:
Completed
Final project cost:
€772,907
Donor Project Partners:
Norwegian ID Centre(NO)
Other Project Partners
National Police Headquarters(PL)
Polish Security Printing Works(PL)
Programme:

Description

The project shall contribute to Outcome 2 ''Improved capacity of law enforcement services to prevent and detect organised crime''.

The main activities in the project shall include: 

  • Inaugural conference and coaching
    • conference and trainings (Polish police officers and from Polish Security Printing Works) will be organized and coordinated by the Warsaw Metropolitan Police (WMP), and coaching will be conducted by experts from the Norwegian ID Centre and international experts from the Border Guard.
  • After the inaugural conference training for trainers will take place. The WMP will purchase the necessary equipment to carry out trainings, create a training plan and materials, presentations, brochures.
  • 2nd line training: Through the trained trainers from 1st line of training, the Police Headquarters will choose officers to undergo 2nd line training. The Polish Security Printing Works will select employees for 2nd line training.

Summary of project results

Project aimed to address challenges linked to detecting and combating crime, including organized and cross-border crime, related to trafficking in human beings. Document forgery is often a first step to various type of crime, The idea of the project was born as a response to the difficulties posed by the control institution in verifying the authenticity of identity documents of both Polish citizens and the growing number of foreigners residing in the capital.

Activities of the project included:

- purchase of the specialised equipment for fals documents detection (i.e. specialised inspection station with two high-end digital and optical microscopes)

- trainings in a field of fals documents detection 

Relusts of the project are as follow:

- almost 11 thousend police officers trained

- specialised equipment purchased

- exchange of knowledge and good practices during study visit in Norway 

Results of the project can impact general public, since it strengthened competences of the Police. 

Summary of bilateral results

Norwegian partner provide capacity building in the project by leading tranings in fals document detection.

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