The National WASTE- project of the Belgian police Budapest, 10 th December 2008 Speaker: Frans Geysels

DGA Administrative Police DGJ Federal Judicial Police DGS Management& Support CGIG DJG Management& Development DJO Ops & Info DJF Economic & Financial Crime DJB Crime against Goods DJP Crime against Persons DJT Technical & Scientific Police DJC Organized Crime Environmental Crime Organized TheftHormones Car Theft F.A.S.T.Hold up Federal Police

Contact Point Local Police Co-ordinator Expertise Administration Investigation capacity Environment FGP Environmental Service Federal Judicial Police Federal Local AIC Co-ordinator Comdo SPN/SPC/WPR SPN/SPC/WPR Contact Point Liaison- officier Environmental Network

i.e. Organised and Recurring; Fraudulant and Intended to make Considerable Profits; Supra-local / International; Very Harmful to the Environment and/or Public Health Serious Environmental Crime

Waste Swindle; Swindle of Radioactive Materials (alleged or not); Swindle of Protected Flora and Fauna; Firework Swindle. The following phenomena are concerned

DUTIES:   Making strategic analyses to conceptualise the phenomena;   Giving advice and ensuring the co-ordination for the benefit of the investigators;   Developing expert data bases;   Providing specific expertise and support to the police services;   Ensuring information control and exploitation;   Starting an “environmental network”;   Providing specific training for members of the “environmental network”;   Promoting an integrated police method to tackle the phenomena;   Initiating and let carry out proactive and reactive investigations   Concluding “skeleton agreements” (Police/Environmental Authorities)   Representing the police in panels that deal with environmental protection (INTERPOL, EUROPOL, EU,...). The Environmental Crime Service

OBJECTIVES (1):   To give insight into the real waste streams in Belgium through specific information gathering by: - planned, short controls of waste transports in association with the competent environmental administrations - punctual checks on “suspicious” waste transports during patrols. Feedback: WASTE ECO-form The WASTE project ° June 1996

ECO-Form

OBJECTIVES (2):   Detect high-risk groups and behaviour in the field of waste- disposal through operational analysis.   Handling Waste-crime by: - To use traditional police detection and investigation techniques; - To catch and convict the perpetrators; - To confiscate the illegally acquired benefits; - To stop the possible threat to the population and the environment. The WASTE project

Checking cargo (Port of Antwerp)

Checking Containers (Port of Antwerp)

Ops BAMBOU (Port of Antwerp)

Analysis Competent Environmental Authorities Exchange Handling Eco-forms Eco EnvironmentalService Input Database  Territorial Police Units

PERSON(S)  Corporation(s) Collection of waste - Production - Acquisition of waste - Wastebroker - Storage of waste Transport- capacity Licences Money laundring capacity - Real estate - Credit-bank Export capacity Dumping capacity (Sand-pit, incinerator,…) Waste Processing Licences - Recycling - Treatment RISK-Group

FGP/PJF Investigation Unit Competent Environmental Authorities Completion Criteria Operational analysis

Collaboration - Infoflux

Collaboration Police General competence in police matters Competence in the enforcement of environmental legislation Approachable 24/24 Recognizable for the public Environmental Authorities Specific competence in environmental legislation Customs General competence in customs matters - Transfrontier (EU) shipment of waste & goods - Taxes - Tpt Limited competence in environmental legislation EXPERTISE IN Police matters Privileged contacts with Public Prosecutors EXPERTISE IN Custom matters EXPERTISE IN Environmental issues Comparaison

Environmental Authorities Inspection/Supervision Report - administrative - judicial in situ Local Environmental Crime Police Report - judicial Investigation Local Environmental Crime Serious Environmental Crime - Exchange of Information - Mutual Support in Expertise and Training Multidisciplinary Approach in Environmental Crime

(Several) Environmental Authorities INFOFLUX ENVIRONMENTAL Authorities POLICECUSTOMS National Regional level EU level GLOBAL level EUROPOL INTERPOLWCO EUROPOLIMPEL/TFS UNEP (?) INECE (?) (Several) Police- Services Agreement Customs Agreement

Best practice “International exchange of information” - Scheme Country Y Country X Border ? ? Customs AD HOC BILATERAL WCO EUROPOL EU Environmental Authorities AD HOC BILATERAL Police AD HOC BILATERAL EUROPOL EU INTERPOL  

Privacy legislation Other legal restrictions - Criminal information - Administrative information - … Best practice “International exchange of information” - Difficulties

  Frans GEYSELS Chief Commissioner Federal Judicial Police Environmental Crime Service F. Toussaintstraat Brussels Fax : Tf: Point of contact