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The Institute of Public Affairs and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Poland
have the pleasure to invite you to the seminar
 
Policemen and thieves
The battle with crime on the Polish-German border
 

The statistics show that crime rate has significantly decreased in comparison with the 90’s. Still each year over 22 thousand crimes are being registered in the border area. In the last few months German media alarmed that cars, bikes and agricultural machines disappear on a big scale in Germany. In Poland mean voices say that in Germany people do not know how to protect their belongings and that local police is reducing job positons, therefor that there are not enough people to chase thieves. Even though statistics show that Poles only commit a small amount, not more than 15 percent  of illegal actions in the Polish-German border area, the committed crime in this region does harm the image of Poles in Germany and is a big problem for both authorities on both sides of the Oder river.
The cooperation between the two countries is getting better and better and the signed treaty on police, border and customs control cooperation during this year will give an extra boost. This is why not without purpose we will organize a discussion shortly before the ratification of this treaty by the Sejm and the Bundestag. During the seminar we are also going to present the latest data on the scale and methods of fighting against crime in the close border area and will face the following questions:
 

·         What is the actual scale of crime in the Polish-German close border area?

·         How does the everyday cooperation between German and Polish policemen look like?

·         What does the signed and supposed to be ratified this year Polish-German treaty on police, border and custom control cooperation change? 

The situation from the Warsaw and close border perspective will be briefly presented by the invited guests and Dr. Agnieszka Łada, who conducted researches on the territories close to the Polish-German border.
 
PROGRAMME
 
Introductory remarks
 
Everyday challenges connected with crime from the Polish close border area perspective
Bartłomiej Bartczak, mayor of Gubin
 
Cooperation in the framework of the Polish-German Centre for police, border and customs control cooperation in Świecko
Ulf Buschmann, coordinator of the German authorities, Polish-German Centre for police, border and customs control cooperation in Świecko 

Introduced changes by the new Polish-German treaty on police, border and customs control cooperation
Grzegorz Polak, Director, Department of International Cooperation and European Funds, Ministry of the Interior
 
The cooperation of Polish police with German authorities fighting close border crimes
Mariusz Sokołowski, Press spokesman of the Police Commendant
 
Introduction and commentary
Agnieszka Łada, Head of the European Programme, Institute of Public Affairs
 
Moderation
Jacek Kucharczyk, President of the Executive Board, Institute of Public Affairs
 
The meeting will be interpreted (Polish-English).
 
The research report of A.Łada, Slogans or actions 2014. Polish-German cooperation fighting close border crime – facts and evaluation, Institute of Public Affairs, Warsaw 2014 will be handed out during the presentation
 
Please register online for the conference until the 15th of October 2014
 
The seminar is part of the common project between the Institute of Public Affairs and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Poland : „Slogans or actions?Evaluation of the implementation of common Polish-German operations“