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The Council of Europe has been organising high-level meetings of Ministries
of the Interior in connection with its technical assistance and co-operation
activities since 1998. Their aim is to foster debate on policing, security and
the protection of citizens' rights at pan-European level, and to evaluate the
Council's involvement in these areas. One of the main emphases is effective
police action to curb international crime, with the help, among other things, of
transfrontier co-operation. An international police ethics is important in this
context.
The first meeting (Strasbourg, 1998) discussed “Pan-European police
co-operation in the fight against organised crime and corruption respecting the
principles of states governed by the rule of law”.
The second meeting (Bucharest, 2000) focused on "The police in the 21st
century: strengthening of the protection of citizens' rights and new
international threats against security".
The third meeting (Warsaw, 2005) addressed the topic “The fight against
terrorism and organised crime to improve security in Europe”. It enabled to to
review the current state of legal instruments on the fight against terrorism at
international and European level as well as their functioning, and to envisage
their future development on the basis of the work carried out by the Council of
Europe.
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