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Below you will find the workshops which will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon. It is possible to participate at three workshops (maximum) on both days. When registering online, you can choose which workshops you prefer to attend. However there is a maximum number of participants for each workshop. The congress management has to reschedule in case the workshop of your choice is fully booked already. Upon arrival, when you will receive your name badge, you will be informed about the final schedule for these workshops.
Tuesday 22 November
1. No synthetic drugs without precursors
(precursor chemicals/investigation workshop)
The majority of the most important illegal precursors for the production of
synthetic
drugs originate from China. These precursors are smuggled into Western Europe
via
Hong Kong and other countries. Insight into organised crime in this area is
gained
from studying a particular case.Which measures can the police and the judiciary
put into
action, what are the problems that arise and how successful is co-operation
between
the autorities involved?
• Mr G. Ligtvoet, Team leader, National Crime
Squad, Southern Netherlands Unit, the Netherlands
• Mr H. van den Boom, Senior Investigator, the Fiscal Information and
Investigation Service-Economic Investigation Service (FIOD-ECD)
• Mr Chan Wa-Shing, Superintendent of the Hong Kong Police, Hong Kong
2. Risk
analysis on precursors and synthetic drugs, success or
coincidence ?
(Customs workshop)
Each year, millions containers of goods enter the Netherlands and Belgium.The
amount
of outgoing goods and the stream of passengers is huge.At border controls,
so-called risk
analyses are used.What has been experienced/discovered so far through these
analyses ?
Have achievements been made or is it merely a matter of coincidence? How can
risk
analysis be improved? In this case, is data mining (comparison of information
from
the police and customs), a possibility for improving risk analysis?
• Mr J. Schreijer, Senior Intelligence Officer,
Customs Intelligence Centre, the Netherlands
• Mr D. Verdickt, Case Officer, Customs and Excise Investigation Department
Antwerp, Belgium
• Mr B. Maes, Inspector, Customs and Excise GAD Team (Anti Drugs Group),
Zaventem, Belgium
3. A good neighbour is better than an absent friend.
(investigation Belgium/the Netherlands workshop)
Co-operation between Belgium and the Netherlands is a natural occurence.After
all, both
countries are important producers of synthetic drugs. But to what extent can
opposing interests influence an investigation and what are the consequences
of this?
The assessment of an independent investigation has brought to light positive
and
negative experiences.What is a conceivable solution to this?
•
Mr G.P.N.Robben, Public Prosecutor, National Public Prosecutor’s Office,
the Netherlands
•
Mr T. Lamiroy, Federal Prosecutor, Federal Prosecutor’s Office, Belgium
4.
Down Under, yet close by
(export Australia workshop)
Australia is currently the largest consumer market for XTC. Large quantities
are
smuggled from the Netherlands and Belgium to Australia in an ingenious way.
Speed
in exchanging information is essential to be able to act quickly. It is not
only distance
that hinders co-operation. Examination of a case enables you to gain insight
into the
respective judicial systems and the strategy to be followed.
• Mr H. Dekker, Team leader of the Zeeland Regional
Police Force, the Netherlands
• Mr K.Mansfield, Federal Agent, Australian Federal Police (AFP) Sydney
Office, Australia
Wednesday 23 November
5. The only legal XTC laboratory
(presentation)
Within the framework of Syndec II, a synthetic drugs laboratory has been set
up on
location. The process of raising awareness of chemical substances, instruments
and
syntheses is intensified by visualising the production of synthetic drugs.
• Mr A. Coppens, Expert in clandestine laboratories,
National Crime Squad, Southern Netherlands Unit, the Netherlands
• Mr B. Goovaerts, Chief Inspector, Central Office for Drugs, Federal Police,
(member of the Labo Intervention Team (LIT), Belgium
6. Dismantling illegal
laboratories and ... criminal organisations
(safety workshop)
Public order and safety, environmental damage, transportation of chemicals
and also
securing evidence for the purpose of the criminal investigation, require painstaking
agreement between the various parties responsible for these various activities.
Close cooperation
between the various parties involved is a must.The LFO (National Dismantling
Facility) ten-step plan familiarises workshop particpants with this subject.
• Mrs A.L.C. Roelofs, Director Fire Services and
Department for Medical Assistance in Accidents and Disasters, Ministry of
the Interior and Kingdom Relations,
the Netherlands
• Mr J. van den Hove, Co-ordinator of the National Dismantling Facility
(LFO), National Crime Squad, the Netherlands
7. XTC and amphetamine production, exclusively
for the Netherlands
and Belgium?
(workshop based on three threat assessments)
Periodic threat assessments allow criminal investigation authorities to make
strategic
decisions when tackling synthetic drugs crime. The linking of three threat
assessments
(of the Dutch National Crime Squad, the Belgian Federal Police and the Dutch
Fiscal
Information Service and Economic Investigation Service) therefore offers insight
into all
aspects of the logistic chain of the production and trade in synthetic drugs.
In what
way can threat assessments be used to steer development of a specific approach?
• Mr
S. Huisman, Researcher in Operational Expertise, National Crime Squad, the
Netherlands
• Mrs C.M.M. Vanhyfte, Strategic Analyst for the Federal Police, Belgium
• Mr P. Veltman, Strategic Analyst for the Fiscal Information and Investigation
Service-Economic Investigation Service (FIOD-ECD), the Netherlands
8. Co-operation
is down to PEOPLE
(EU borders workshop)
The importation of precursors also takes place regularly via new EU member
States.
Good personal contacts are vital for co-operation. Social-cultural differences,which
could
impede the criminal investigation, are bridged by an intensive personal approach.
A case is used to demonstrate that successes are archieved by mutual trust,
combined
with a professional approach.
• Mrs I. Kieres, Chief Inspector of the Central
Bureau for Organised Crime, KGP CBS
Police,Warsaw, Poland
• Mr K. Kwiatkowski, Senior Sergeant of the Central Bureau Drugs Department,
CBS Police, Gdansk, Poland
• Mr J.J.T. Op de Locht, Commissioner of Police, Head of the GDA Drugs
Unit, Hasselt,Belgium