Objective of the project
To contribute to the achievement of the obligations stemming from Chapter 24 “Justice, freedom and security” in line with the EU acquis.
Specific objectives
To support the achievement of the interim benchmarks in particular the ones leading to improved capacities to fight serious and organised crime.
The Action has the following Components:
- Strengthening professional skills and capacities to fight serious and organised crime. This include building on proactive investigations including systematic tracking of money flow; analysis of the evidences gathered at pre-investigations and investigation phase and their relevance in courts in order to establish a clear and homogeneous jurisprudence and case law; capacity building on the track records, statistics and reporting; support to institutions to establish an initial track record of freezing and confiscation of criminal assets through the increased capacity to run complex financial investigations.
- Enhancing operational capacities to fight serious and organised crime. This include: support the Criminal Police and its subordinated units enhancing professional skills, improving operational tools and operational capability; support improvement of services at the level of National Criminal Intelligence System; support interoperability of IT systems; contribute to a more efficient cross-border information exchange through secure networks; provide support to National Center for Criminalistic Forensic of Criminal Police Department dealing with variety of forensic expertise.
Project partners
- FIIAPP (Spain)
- DCPC (Italy)
Key Results of the Project
Component 1 :
- Increased efficiency of the legal framework through the processes related to Zondo Law and the Law on Recovery of the Proceeds from Crime
- Establishment of new permanent Task Force to fight money laundering from a transnational perspective
- Creation and institutionalisation of the Forum of Judges and Public Prosecutors to fight serious and organised crime
- Progressive harmonisation of the jurisprudence in serious and organised crime, money laundering and asset recovery, with special focus on circumstantial evidence
- Capacity enhancement of Serbian institutions to fight Serious and Organised Crime, with specific focus on cybercrimes, environmental crimes, drug-related crimes, international cooperation, and complex cases.
- Initiation of the process to approve the Financial Investigation Operational Plan
- Digital financial data sharing platform ALFRESCO (Private Public Partnership) proposed
- Contribution to Serbian National Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment (SOCTA)
- Activities (trainings, assessment reports) for Serbia’s preparedness to ensure the operation of the Asset Recovery Office (ARO)
Component 2:
- Legal & technical proposals for automated DNA, fingerprint & vehicle data exchange delivered
- PRUM legal/technical prerequisites for DNA & AFIS (Automated Fingerprint Identification System) exchange set
- Fully operational EUCARIS requirements defined
- AFIS exchange equipment defined
- PRUM DNA & fingerprint action plan submitted
- CODIS (Combined DNA Index System ) for national DNA profile exchange with EU partners recommended chosen
- IOPCD (International Operational Police Cooperation Department) case-management specs drafted, and IOPCD and end-user capabilities enhanced
- The requirements for the Police Event Log and Map system were defined and upgraded
- The NCIS conceptual model and system vision developed and the law governing NCIS data exchange drafted
- Drafted ICT strategy for the Ministry of Interior.
