Cross-Border Police Collaboration by Sophia Yakhlef

Author:Sophia Yakhlef [Yakhlef, Sophia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Criminology, Ethnic Studies, General, Middle Eastern Studies, Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781000223316
Google: y7X_DwAAQBAJ
Barnesnoble:
Goodreads: 54063250
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-11-19T02:10:18+00:00

Providing Information

During the Power Weeks, border police and coast guard officers working in the harbor areas were supposedly informed about the Power Weeks and were urged to view the Power Week officers as a specific source of information. One important function of the Power Week team was thus to serve as a “hub” of information for other officers working in “the field” (harbor areas, border zones, or airports). The Power Week officers were often contacted by guards requesting them to check the identity documents of suspicious persons. There were several cases when the Power Week officers could find the true identity of an individual (if the identification document was fake) or find out if the person was suspected of having committed a crime. Again, the reason for this was that all the officers worked together, and it was easy to ask someone to check the information regarding a specific person’s identity in national databases. As the officers had access to different national information systems, working from the same office made it considerably more efficient than when working from different countries.

During one of the Power Weeks, I was seated next to Henrik who worked as a border intelligence officer. I was engaged in writing notes on my laptop when Henrik suddenly asked me if I understood the process of intelligence information. When I answered him hesitantly, he showed me a diagram on his laptop with empty “bubbles” connected by various threads.2 He told me that he was just about to start working on a “mind map” regarding information that he had received about a well-known organized crime group. “This is what it looks like in the beginning,” he said, “and then, with some help from others I can start adding more information.” As all the participating officers had access to different databases, creating such “information maps” together saved both time and effort. In Henrik’s view, the most important part of the hands-on work conducted during the Power Weeks was to share knowledge, establish routines, and refine work methods. His anticipation was that they would be able to develop a “best practice,” that is, the most efficient work methods that would benefit all involved organizations. Henrik further described the benefits of knowledge sharing and of valuing each individual’s competencies:

It is valuable to learn different [work] techniques, and to see how other people work, we all have similar work systems and work in similar ways, but everyone has different information [and] data bases to search from. Now we can see new and smarter ways to search and see how and which systems you can use to find information in the quickest way possible.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.