Best Practices in Enforcement and Prosecution CWIT Final Conference/Lyon/INTERPOL Headquarters/26th June 2015 Presented by Jürgen Braun/Polizei Bremen

Major aspects of best practices in enforcement (of waste shipment inspections)  Established collaboration  Sufficient personnel  Net of favoured inspection locations  Inspection philosophies and common approaches  International networks and inspection activities and prosecution  Prompt information/data transfer to prosecuting agencies  Specialised investigators  Specialised public prosecutors

Established collaboration between authorities Fruitful and well-practised collaboration between Local authorities (on management and operational level)  Competent environmental authority  Police  Customs Local authorities and state authorities and federal authorities Local authorities and authorities in other member states

Gothenborg Hamburg Bremen Amsterdam Rotterdam Antwerpen Southampton Le Havre Upstream waste sites in towns and rural areas Chain of favoured locations for waste shipment inspections Motorways Inland ports and inland waterways

Inspections of upstream waste sites avoid illegal waste shipments ab origine Trading locations for export second hand cars Storage and packing locations for second hand goods containers Multi agency approach to detect them and keep them under control Legal waste sites Waste sites in a twilight zone Illegal waste sites

Established mixture of inspection philosophies Intelligence led inspections in the daily routine of highly specialised units Seaports Temporary and regularly multi agency control operations Highways/Inland waterways/Upstream waste sites At random inspections in the daily routine of not highly specialised units Highways

Access to data Intelligence led inspections in seaports More detailled inspection Using risk indicators + =

Established common approaches  Agreed standards to decide if used goods or waste  Agreed methods to produce evidence for classification as waste  Standard criteria for reporting, seizure etc.

Participation in international networks and inspection activities to combat illegal waste shipments, like IMPEL TFS INTERPOL ENIGMA INECE Seaport Environmental Security Network AQUAPOL trains collaboration and improves and spreads knowledge

Effective prosecution of waste shipment criminality Illegal waste shipments are prosecuted as crimes acc. to § 326 German criminal code Direct and prompt information on suspected illegal shipments from environment authorities to prosecuting agencies speed up proceedings Specialized investigators in police units for effective waste shipment crime investigations Public prosecutors with special knowledge in waste shipment law can bring prosecution to an effective end

Thank you for your kind attention! Jürgen Braun/Polizei Bremen Daniel-von-Bürenstraße 2B, D Bremen/phone +49 (0)