15.12.2020, 15:40

10th Meeting of the Thematic Working Group on Exchange of Information regarding Forged and Fake Travel Documents within PCC SEE

Online - The annual meeting of the Thematic Working Group on Exchange of Information regarding Forged and Fake Travel Documents within PCC SEE took place on14 and 15 December 2020 under the auspices of the Croatian Chairmanship-in-Office.

The meeting brought together the appointed national working group members from the  12PCC SEE Contracting Parties, i.e. experts with operational experience in the area of document fraud and with a forensic background, offering a continuation to their established good practice over the years on exchanging expertise and experience on new forms, methods and misuse of detected forged and fake travel documents, focusing more specifically on detected document fraud in light of the COVID 19 pandemic situation and morphing techniques.

Representatives from Europol’s European Migration Smuggling Centre, the Frontex Centre of Excellence for Combatting Document Fraud, OSCE, IOM and the German Federal Police also participated and shared on-going efforts in the field of combatting document fraud, as well as contributed relevant information on new findings and risk analysis related to existing and new modus operandi of OCGs active in the production of forged documents.




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