When crisis calls, volunteers can respond: CREWS pilot exercise in Hamburg

How can authorities make the best use of volunteers’ willingness to help during a crisis? A CREWS pilot exercise in Hamburg-Altona put this cooperation to the test, bringing together around 130 participants to respond to a simulated heatwave and flooding emergency. Hosted by CREWS lead partner Altona District Office and Hamburg Fire and Rescue Services,…

September 9, 2026

Baltic Sea Task Force on Organised Crime meets in Berlin

On 31st October - 1st November 2019 the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community of Germany and the BSTF Secretariat hosted the Annual Strategic Meeting of the Baltic Sea Task Force on Organized Crime (BSTF) under the patronage of the Parliamentary State Secretary Prof Dr Günter Krings. The Council of the Baltic Sea…

November 1, 2019

German-Estonian border control cooperation: an internship story

At the beginning of last June, two German Federal police officers Jasmin Bezler and Sergei Bachmann had a chance to test their knowledge and know-how about border control at the external border of the European Union. Jasmin was sent to South Prefecture and Sergei to East Prefecture for an internship. Just to give the idea…

July 20, 2017