EUAM Iraq Senior Strategic Advisors for Organised Crime implemented their fourth workshop on Intelligence-Led Policing and Multi-Agency Collaboration at the Ministry of Interior’s (MoI) Commanders Preparation and Qualification Centre in Baghdad.

The workshop was attended by representatives of several Iraqi security institutions and agencies focusing on organised crime

The strategic aim of these workshops is to strengthen inter-agency collaboration in the fight against serious and organised crime and terrorism between the MoI, Interpol National Central Bureau Baghdad, the Federal Intelligence and Investigations Agency (FIIA), the Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS), the National Security Service (NSS), the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Office (AML/CFT), and the Ministry of Defence (MOD). 

EUAM Iraq Senior Strategic Advisor Anders Danielsson giving a lecture on multi-agency structures combatting serious and organised crime in Sweden

EUAM Senior Strategic Advisers Tomi Jansson and Anders Danielsson, an EUAM national liaison officer, EUAM Head of Operations Paul Madden, in a discussion with General Ziad, Head of MoI Directorate of Training and Qualification (from left to right)

Workshop certificate handed over to an attendee by EUAM Iraq Head of Operations Paul Madden and Major General Ziad Head of the MoI Training and Qualification Directorate

Senior officials of the Ministry of Interior, FIIA, INIS, NSS, AML/CFT and the Ministry of Defence taking part to the second day of the workshop

Some 20 high-ranking officers from several Iraqi security institutions and agencies participated in the two-day session which included presentations on multi-agency structures in EU countries, group discussions and lessons learned.