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Europol: the EU’s response to serious and organised and

Europol is the Agency for Cooperation. It is the place where European police work together.

Europol began as a small office working to stop drug trafficking and has grown to become the central point for criminal information in the EU. If a crime affects two or more EU countries, Europol can help police officers join the dots. There are 27 countries in the EU, with hundreds of police organisations. Europol brings them together to fight crime as one.

1 299 staff members 46 countries

66% men 34% women

* Data correct as of December 2019 and includes staff with employment contracts with Europol, liaison officers from EU and non-EU countries and organisations, seconded national experts, trainees and contractors. 3

Headquarters in the

Budget for 2019 € 138.3 million

Liaison bureaux

There are more than 250 liaison officers at Europol’s headquarters from almost 50 different countries and agencies. Liaison officers meet and network daily, building strong international working relationships, coordinating operational cooperation, creating links, and securely sharing crime information and best practices.

Iceland

Canada 27 EU USA Member States

Australia

262 liaison officers at its headquarters 4

Communicate

SIENA

The Secure Information Exchange Network Application is a state-of-the-art platform that meets the communication needs of EU law enforcement. A 1 744 secure messaging service, SIENA is used to quickly secure lines exchange operational and strategic crime-related data between EU countries and Europol's partners. provided

SIENA messages exchanged

The overall number of messages exchanged includes all requests, answers and messages for information sent and received in SIENA, including cancellation messages and no information available answers.

1.2m

1m 1.1m 869k 732k 605k 456k 414k

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 5

SIENA messages per crime area (top 5)

Robbery and Drug Fraud and Migrant Terrorism organised trafficking swindling smuggling theft

SIENA cases initiated

84k

77k

66 k

46 k 39 k 34 k

18 k 15 k

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 6

SIENA new cases per crime area

Crime areas used in less than 3% of new cases are not shown on this graph. Some numbers might be part of various crime areas, overlapping percentages.

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4 Money 5 launering ther organise crime 6 errorism 8 Migrant smuggling 8 obbery an organise theft

10 Drug trafficking

18 15 eapons an eplosives 16 rau an swinling 7

Connect

International criminal and terrorist groups make use of the latest technology. Europol must be equally flexible and innovative by making sure it always has state-of-the-art tools and methods at its disposal, like databases and communication channels that offer fast and secure facilities for storing, searching, visualising, analysing and linking key information.

Europol Information System (EIS)

The Europol Information System is Europol’s database for storing and querying information on offences, offenders, suspects and other key crime-related data.

EIS searches 53m

4 m m 25 m 14 633 k 390 k 321 k 306 k

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 8

EIS objects in the database 14m

1.3m total obects

people

1m

395k

295k

245k 236k 186k 241k 213k 162k 103k 70k 86k 48k 61k

2019

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11 14

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EIS objects (per crime area)

51% 12% 11% 6.3% 4.3% 3.7% 3.6% 3.5% 2.2%

errorism Drug obbery an rau ther oily orgery of Money eapons trafficking aggravate organise inury aministrative launering an theft crime ocuments eplosives

Europol Platform for Experts (EPE)

The Europol Platform for Experts is Europol’s bespoke tool for law enforcement specialists to share best practices, expert knowledge, and non-personal data on crime with other specialists in the field. EPE works like a closed social media network and almost 18 000 members from more than 100 countries use it to interact and collaborate with one another.

from 100 countries

172k 50 eperts from law enforcement, crime areas 58 private sector an acaemia iscusse platforms 10

Coordinate

Europol provides EU law enforcement authorities with 24/7 operational support. Europol coordinates this support for in its mandate and for criminal cases that fall into several criminal areas.

Joint action days (JADS)

Joint action days bring together EU countries, European and international organisations to strengthen Europe’s borders and internal security.

707 1 068 new cases suspects arrested initiated during action days

Action days 19 perational an Analysis Centre 251 68 European inancial 19 198 an Economic perational an Crime Centre Analysis Centre 251 68 European inancial 198 an Economic Crime Centre

18 251 European Counter errorism Centre 18 251 134 European Counter European Serious an errorism Centre25 rganise European Crime134 Centre 2018 2019 Cybercrime European Serious an Centre25 rganise European Crime Centre 2018 2019 Cybercrime Centre 11

Mobile offices

Europol mobile offices can provide support for a wide range of activities, like ongoing investigations, major sports events, international conferences and other occasions where police cooperation is needed. Europol deploys staff to support ongoing investigations and operations. This enables access to Europol’s secure network on site.

Canada of America

Georgia Israel Japan

Singapore

EU 27 (except Luxembourg) Albania Morocco Nigeria Moldova Argentina Tunisia Montenegro Colombia South Africa Serbia Switzerland

Europol deployed its experts with mobile offices to

46 countries + EUNAVFORMED 12

Mobile office deployment

370

339

221

155 146

91 90

deployets

sort ter 1 028 days of on-site support to fight 4 migrant smuggling lo ter 4 peret 13

Joint investigation teams (JITs)

Two or more EU countries can agree to set up a joint investigation team. They run for a limited time and for a specific purpose to carry out criminal investigations in one or more of the EU countries involved.

Joint Investigation Teams supported by Europol

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Operational meetings funded by Europol

14 Collaborate

9 368 operational reports produced

9 368

8 280 8 266

5 330 4 085 4 046

2 141 2 250

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262 operational analysis reports

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Hits on every 100 data checks requested

Hit rate measures the number of operational reports produced per 100 operational contributions. 16

1 874 operations supported

1 874

1 748 1 496

1 056

812 629 684 632

Operations in top crime areas

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Europol centres

Operational and Analysis Centre

The Operational and Analysis Centre is Europol’s information hub; a gateway sorting, handling and analysing all incoming information. The centre monitors operations and developments 24/7, sets up cooperation with non-EU countries and organisations and deploys experts on the ground. It also provides analysis to Europol’s other centres and organisations.

+80k 4 154 19 operational operational reports action days contributions produced coordinated and processed supported 19

European Serious and Organised Crime Centre

Europol’s European Serious and Organised Crime Centre supports EU countries in their fight against international criminal networks involved drugs, weapons and explosives, property and environmental crime. The centre also hosts the European Migrant Smuggling Centre (EMSC), which targets and dismantles the complex and sophisticated criminal networks involved in migrant smuggling.

726 5 322 985 operational cases operational reports operational reports supported produced by ESOCC produced by EMSC

71 17k+ 155 action days in the operational contributions number of operations field by EMSC processed by EMSC supported by EMSC 20

European Cybercrime Centre

Europol set up the European Cybercrime Centre to strengthen the law enforcement response to cybercrime in the EU and help protect European citizens, businesses and governments from online crime.

397 1 084 6 731 operational cases operational reports operational supported produced contributions processed

1 646 47 forensic support child abuse victims identified 21

European Counter Terrorism Centre

The terrorism situation in Europe is constantly evolving, and the threat of terrorism and violent extremism is growing ever more complex. The European Counter Terrorism Centre was set up to monitor jihadist and right-wing terrorism, the state of terrorist online communications, the threat from returnees from conflict zones and released prisoners and the impact of technological developments.

632 1 883 6 075 operational cases operational reports operational supported produced contributions processed

European Union Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU)

The EU IRU at the European Counter Terrorism Centre combats terrorist propaganda on the internet. The unit identifies and refers violent extremist activities online to the relevant internet service providers.

361 25k+ online platforms volumes of content monitored assessed 22

European Financial and Economic Crime Centre

Highly sophisticated cases of , scams and fraud that target individuals, companies and the public sector continue to threaten the growth of the economy and the integrity of our financial system. To respond to this threat, Europol created the European Financial and Economic Crime Centre.

205 1 137 5 267 operational cases operational reports operational supported* produced* contributions processed*

*numbers related to financial intelligence in 2019 23 Help us fight crime!

87 Have you seen them? criminals arrested since the launch of the website eumostwanted.eu 32 directly connected with eumostwanted.eu

Do you recognise these objects? 1 950 000 page visitors

26 100 tips from the general europol.europa.eu/stopchildabuse public

4.2m+ downloads of the Need help to unlock available tools your digital life? 188 countries nomoreransom.org $632m prevented ending up in criminal pockets Europol in brief 2019 ISBN978-92-95220-20-1 / DOI 10.2813/306803 / QL-AM-20-001-EN-N

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