PA Secure Newsletter 2018/3

The PA Secure team at the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) Secretariat presents the third issue of the Newsletter in 2018. We would like to share some news with you on important developments in the EUSBSR Policy Secure Area (co-coordinated by the CBSS Secretariat and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, MSB). This newsletter…

Byadmin_bsrSeptember 26, 20180Comments

Law enforcement

Baltic Sea Task Force on Organised Crime (BSTF) meeting in Jūrmala

On 18-19 September 2018, representatives from Police, Customs and Border guards from all the CBSS Member States gathered in Jūrmala, Latvia for their last Operational Planning and Coordination Meeting, before the handover to the German Chairmanship with operational support from Poland. The participants discussed irregular migration, lessons learned from the FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia, illicit…

Byadmin_bsrSeptember 20, 20180Comments

PA Secure

Urban resilience in the Baltic Sea Region

On 6 September 2018, PA Secure was invited to participate in two VASAB workshops organised by the Latvian presidency – Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development in Liepaja, Latvia. The first workshop led by ESPON gathered information from the BSR stakeholders on what indicators are important for monitoring national and macro-regional development trends…

Byadmin_bsrSeptember 7, 20180Comments

CBRN

Civil Security team meets Swedish CBRNE actors

The CBRNE stakeholders meeting is organised by MSB (Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency) twice a year for all actors in Sweden, dealing with CBRNE (hazardous materials) issues. This was the second appearance of the CBSS Secretariat’s Civil Security team at the meeting. In August 2018, Project Officer Nina Jernberg presented EUSBSR PA Secure work and the…

Byadmin_bsrSeptember 6, 20180Comments

Law enforcement

Joint BSR analysis of trends and risks in irregular migration and cross-border crime

On 4 – 6 September 2018, analysts from the Police, Coast and Border Guards from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia and Sweden gathered in Stockholm to exchange information on recent events, trends and risks related to irregular migration and cross-border crime. The meeting was the second Annual Threat Assessment Seminar during…

Byadmin_bsrSeptember 6, 20180Comments

Research

New project will bring research results to practitioners

Currently, in the field of civil security in the Baltic Sea Region, there is no common or standard mechanism for utilizing the results from research. This means that much of the output from extensive research projects is not reaching practitioners and is not contributing to saving human lives and valuable property. The new project Baltic Sea Region…

Byadmin_bsrJuly 21, 20180Comments

Law enforcement

PA Secure is a partner in a new law enforcement cooperation project

The Swedish Police received funding from the Swedish Institute for an initiative focusing on strengthening the cooperation between law enforcement agencies in the region. CBSS Secretariat in its capacity of the EUSBSR PA Secure co-coordinator joined this initiative as a partner. The project, named Goldfinger, will help to develop joint operational capacities for law enforcement agencies in…

Byadmin_bsrJuly 1, 20180Comments

Flagship Projects

Flagship FIRE-IN: first year results at Annual Dissemination Workshop

80 participants from all fields related to Fire & Rescue in Europe: researchers, experts, national rescue services, civil protection agencies, NGOs, innovation and industry from 15 countries gathered for the first Annual Dissemination Workshop of the FIRE-IN project on 26 June 2018. The workshop was hosted by the National Fire Corps (Corpo Nazionale dei Vigili…

Byadmin_bsrJune 29, 20180Comments

PA Secure

PA Secure Newsletter 2018/2

Dear Friends, The PA Secure team at the Council of the Baltic Sea States Secretariat presents the second issue of the Newsletter in 2018. We would like to share some news with you on important developments in the EUSBSR Policy Secure Area (co-coordinated by the CBSS Secretariat and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, MSB). This…

Byadmin_bsrJune 25, 20180Comments

Children/Youth

Students from universities in the Baltic Sea Region addressing societal security challenges in hands-on scenario-based workshops

What are the incentives for national authorities to cooperate around hazardous substances and is the participation for some conditioned on the exclusion of others? What role can volunteerism in fire-fighting and rescue operations play in making the inhabitants in the Baltic Sea Region more resilient? Is the idea of a special sense of belonging to the Baltic…

Byadmin_bsrJune 15, 20180Comments