Project title: Eastern Partnership Police Cooperation Programme
Duration: 2014 - 2017
Budget: €5 million
Implemented by: EU MS (Poland, finland, Austria, Lithuania, Germany, France, Sweden)
Beneficiery countries:EaP Countries (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Moldova, Belorus)
The overal objective: to increase police cooperation on issues related to cross-border crime between EU and EaP countries and among EaP countries themselves, thus contributing to strengthening the rule of law in these countries.
Expected results:
- Increased practical police cooperation among partners;
- Increased knowledge on practical measures to combat cross border crime and specific forms of organized crime;
- Increased knowledge of EU good practice on the management of law enforcement agencies.
In the frames of the Project Lithuania is a Senior Partner of Georgia and Sweden is a Junior Partner
‘Action Plan of cooperation with Georgia within framework of Eastern Partnership Police Cooperation Programme’ includes following topics:
- Strategic management
- International Cooperation (EU, EU MS, EUROPOL, EUROJUST and other agencies)
- Combating cybercrime
- Drug trafficking
- Corruption
- Police cooperation
- Development of forensic investigation, etc.