Training seminar on smuggling the excise goods
On 14 - 19 June 2015 in Rzeszow a training seminar was held on smuggling the excise goods, on smuggling and introducing into the market goods bearing trademarks , stolen vehicles as well as on smuggling and trade of the animals and plants threatened with extinction (CITES ).
The workshops were attended by officers from the Regional Police Headquarters in Lublin, Białystok, Olsztyn and Rzeszow and the Prevention and Traffic Road Bureau of the National Police Headquarters - partners involved in the realisation of the project as well as invited guests from the Customs Chamber in Przemyśl, III Customs Office in Warsaw, Higher Police School in Szczytno as well as external experts from the Ministry of Environment, representatives of companies representing the legal interests of the protection of industrial property (experts from the Philip Morris International Poland, Safety CEDC Group, Imperial Tobacco Poland SA, Probandi, representative of the law firm Grzelka & Partners representing the interests Legal firm L'Oreal Paris.
The aim of the seminar was to exchange information concerning: methods of operation of the perpetrators, ways of using by them the means of transport, methods of disclosure of smuggling the excise goods and goods bearing trademarks, identifying trafficking routes and the possibility of joint activities.
The seminar was also a platform for exchanging knowledge, experiences and good practices between representatives of the various groups of the representatives of state institutions, representatives of the tobacco and alcohol companies, representatives of private companies. The seminar was also held to exchange information and past experience in the following areas: structures of and trafficking routes, directory, animals and plants threatened with extinction, knowledge of risks associated with the smuggling of animals.
Participation in the seminar enabled to establish working contacts between institutions operating under the common name of "fighting crime". It was also the next step in professional development of officers, among others, in terms of learning new techniques and ways of preventing and combating crime.
In the first and last day of training the participants filled in the knowledge tests and it resulted that the indicators in the form of incurring knowledge were achieved.