Promoting cooperation between law enforcement authorities in preventing and combating economic crime in Latvia

About this project

<p style="text-align: justify">The main aim of the pre-defined project is to develop a joint digital intelligence environment and enhance the expertise of professionals in order to facilitate information exchange among the Latvian law enforcement agencies, while fully and effectively utilizing available information to combat organized crime. The project addresses the need to formalize the cooperation between different law-enforcement agencies in Latvia, and thereby facilitate effective information exchange. This need was highlighted in the Fifth Round Mutual Evaluation Report by the Committee of Experts of the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism, 2018 (Moneyval report in 2018).</p> <p style="text-align: justify">The main activities in the project include;</p> <ul> <li>development and implementation of legal procedures for inter-agency information exchange (regulatory proposals, procedures and inter-agency procedural roadmaps);</li> <li>software development;</li> <li>infrastructure development (infrastructure solution for State Revenue Service) developed and encryption equipment acquired;</li> <li>data analysis improvement;</li> <li>software integration with the State Police;</li> <li>analytics training;</li> <li>specialized training on special techniques (surveillance, covert operations and locksmith).</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</p>

Project partners

• Latvian State Police Project partner· Latvia