security
Mon, 11/05/2009 - 7:49pm
security
The EU should facilitate an accelerated flow of secure information required in the prevention and detection of crime across member states (e.g. drug trafficking and human trafficking and paedophilia). Activities should include increased funding for, and better utilisation of, new integrated technology, closer cooperation between national police officers.
If by "an accelerated flow of secure information" you mean intelligence-sharing, then to an extent this already happens via EUROPOL and INTERPOL etc.. On the other hand, certain other aspects of intelligence are jealously guarded by national agencies - eg. on terrorist suspects and so on.
What's needed is something of a cultural change on behalf of the security services - but also a more realistic approach to border security. The lack of passport controls within the Schengen Area makes it very easy for people to cross a border and disappear into another national system. A microchip-tracking system might work, but would put the civil rights lobby into a frenzy.