Bjelašnica, 6 March 2012 – The Directorate for Coordination of Police Bodies of BiH hosted a coordination meeting in Bjelasnica attended by the State Chief Prosecutor and Directors of the Law Enforcement Agencies.
The central topics of the meeting revolved around the work of the Operational Group for the fight against terrorism, activities of the Task Force for the fight against trafficking in human beings and the report on post visa regime liberalisation monitoring.
Attendees were presented with the work of the Operational Group for the fight against terrorism and the activities which are being undertaken to reveal and process perpetrators of the terrorist attack at the US Embassy in Sarajevo. Those present expressed full support to the work and members of the Group.
Task force for the fight against trafficking in human beings presented the current situation and statistics regarding this form of crime as well as the activities that the law enforcement agencies are undertaking to fight trafficking in human beings and illegal migrations.
The attendees were also briefed about the current state of play regarding the respect of the visa free regime and informed that the Ministry of Security in cooperation with the relevant law enforcement agencies have undertaken a series of activities to prevent increase of false asylum seekers from BiH, which was particularly observed in September in Belgium and Sweden. It was concluded that the law enforcement agencies will through the work of the Monitoring Team intensively follow further developments in order to identify and sanction persons who are abusing the visa free regime.
A day before the meeting, the Directorate hosted a seminar on the „Mechanisms of police cooperation in the federal state“, where officials and experts from the German police agencies presented the organisation and the way of functioning of police agencies and discussed modalities for cooperation with the BiH colleagues.