Europe is changing. So international policing is striking a new path...
Since the early 1990ies political, economic, social and technological developments have lead to a dramatic increase of international, transnational (most serious) crime in Europe, often related to organized crime.
The European police forces are taking increasingly powerful measures against these developments. These are international legal and practical measures designed and organized in cooperation of the states concerned. Fighting groups of criminals operating on an international basis more and more requires police action which is also coordinated on an international basis. This can only be achieved by police / CID officers who have been specially trained for this international work.
This means that the states of Central Europe have to offer these officers special further training for this work which is planned and carried out by all the states in agreement and mutual consent.
Apart from being of great practical use for the operative and analytical work of the police, this active and continued further training creates the idea of all police forces playing the same role and sharing the same professional philosophy. And this in turn is absolutely necessary for the national security of all states in central Europe, to enable them to create similar living conditions and security for all their inhabitants.
The following states therefore organize and finance the
Central European Police College (MEPA):
- The Federal Republic of Germany
- The Republic of Austria
- The Republic of Poland
- The Swiss Confederation
- The Republic of Slovakia
- The Republic of Slovenia
- The Czech Republic
- The Republic of Hungary
The MEPA as a training institution supported by all its members plans and organizes courses that are focussed on practical work and current police requirements. These courses are for officers at the intermediate level of police management. They must have completed their training as police inspectors and must also have several years of police work experience.