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🚔 Since the #EUMostWanted campaign launched in 2016, 120 fugitives have been arrested.
👥 This year 50+ profiles of fugitives linked to organised crime groups have been added to the website.
♣️♦️ Your tip can #BringThemDown.
♠️♥️ Visit http://www.eumostwanted.eu #GameOver
Innovation a key issue as world police chiefs meet at Europol.
👮👮 Over 380 high-level representatives from 49 countries convened in Europol’s headquarters this week for the 2022 European Police Chiefs Convention (#EPCC).
Press release ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/innovation-key-issue-world-police-chiefs-meet-europol
🚢 Italian operation takes down corrupt port workers facilitating ‘Ndrangheta drug trafficking activities.
🇮🇹 @GDF, with Europol & @Eurojust support, dismantled a criminal network smuggling cocaine into Europe.
🚨 More than EUR 4 million in fake 500 euro bills seized in Spain.
💶 Europol supported 🇪🇸 authorities in dismantling an organised crime group involved in the production and distribution of counterfeit euro banknotes
Press release ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/more-eur-4-million-in-fake-500-euro-bills-seized-in-spain
🇶🇦 @MOI_QatarEn & Europol sign arrangement to combat cross-border serious organised crime.
✍️ This new level of cooperation will be important for tackling priority crime areas affecting both the European Union & Qatar.
🏆 Congratulations to the 2022 winners of the Europol Excellence Awards in Innovation: 🇫🇷 @Gendarmerie for the most innovative law enforcement project & 🇩🇪 @bka for the most innovative law enforcement operation!
Press Release ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/europol-excellence-awards-in-innovation-2022
#ARRESTED: One of the #EUMostWanted fugitives arrested in Spain! 👏👏
The fugitive was part of a criminal organisation engaged in drug trafficking & had been on the run since 2018.
🚨 You could #BringThemDown. Visit http://www.eumostwanted.eu to submit an anonymous tip. #GameOver
🚨📄 New publication! The Europol Innovation Lab has a new Observatory Report: "Policing in the #Metaverse"
👮 This report provides a first, law enforcement-centric outlook at current developments in this rapidly evolving field.
Download it here ⤵️
http://ow.ly/BMts50KZJ8z
RT @EUHomeAffairs: 🤔 Did you know October is #CyberSecMonth?
🗣️ @YlvaJohansson "The fight against ransomware and other cyber threats are my top priority"
#ThinkB4Uclick #Choose2BeSafeOnline @CyberSecMonth
🎙️ Just published! Ep6 of The Europol Podcast: Ransomware - Your Money or Your Files.
Hear how Europol worked with international law enforcement & @Bitdefender to target one of the most notorious cybercrime groups: #REvil.
🔊 Listen here ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/europol-podcast/episode-6-ransomware-your-money-or-your-files
🚨 Media advisory: registration for the #EuropolIPConf still open!
Join our keynote speakers as they examine how law enforcement & the private sector can cooperate to tackle IP crime in times of crisis.
📅 27-28 Oct 2022
📍 Rome
📰 Press registration➡️ press@europol.europa.eu
📍 Today in Brussels Executive Director Catherine De Bolle unveiled the #EUMostWanted mural.
🗨️ “One small action could mean that a dangerous fugitive is arrested and charged, saving potential victims."
Details about this year's campaign here ➡️ https://eumostwanted.eu/
⚠️ You could bring them down: help find the EU’s most dangerous fugitives.
👮 Today, Europol & ENFAST, with 🇧🇪 police, launched the 2022 #EUMostWanted campaign.
♠️ 50+ fugitives were added to the website & a new mural was unveiled in Brussels.
More⤵️
https://bit.ly/3dWiZLM
RT @EUHomeAffairs: 𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑: you could #BringThemDown
♠️ A criminal network is like a house of cards
♦️ Putting one #EUMostWanted fugitive behind bars could make the whole network collapse.
♠️ A criminal network is like a house of cards: each player carries out illegal activities in support of the organisation.
♦️ Putting one #EUMostWanted fugitive behind bars could make the whole network collapse.
♣️ You could #BringThemDown. #GameOver
Executive Director De Bolle briefed 🇪🇺 @EP_President Roberta Metsola today on security developments & criminal threats.
As organised crime is increasingly digital, networked & international, cross-border & EU-level cooperation has never been more critical to #MakingEuropeSafer.
🚨 Kingpins of sexual exploitation gang arrested in Berlin.
The investigation, supported by Europol, resulted in a simultaneous action day in Berlin & Budapest last week. At least 25 victims have been identified so far.
Press release ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/kingpins-of-sexual-exploitation-gang-arrested-in-berlin
♠️♦️♣️♥️ It's coming…
🔊 Have you listened to the latest episode of The Europol Podcast yet?
📸 In Ep5: Catching Cocaine Traffickers, we explore how one photo led to one of Europol’s largest drug busts and the take down of an international criminal network.
Available here ⤵️
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/europol-podcast/episode-5-catching-cocaine-traffickers
Today in Abu Dhabi Executive Director De Bolle & H.H. @SaifBZayed took an important step in enhancing the cooperation between United Arab Emirates & Europol.
During the visit the Liaison Officer Agreement was signed, which allows 🇦🇪 liaison officers to be deployed to Europol.
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