In order to improve international cooperation, Saarland Interior Minister Reinhold Jost (SPD) would like to establish a competence center for training, further education and training for cross-border crime fighting in Saarland. Jost presented this plan during a working visit by Interior Minister Léon Gloden (CSV).
For this reason, Jost wants to launch an agenda for security in the border area with the Federal Ministry of the Interior in Berlin in the coming days. It should be about imparting knowledge and language skills as well as creating networks.
The Luxembourg Interior Minister Gloden welcomes the idea of an international police center for Germany, France and Luxembourg, a kind of “Schengen high school for the police”. However, it is still too early to make concrete suggestions as to the extent to which the Grand Duchy could participate in this project.
Police cooperation should be modernized
The agreement on police cooperation between Germany and Luxembourg concluded in 1995 is to be revised, according to the Interior Ministry’s press release on the working visit. New topics such as cybercrime or modern forms of fraud should be taken into account. In addition, a border alert plan for major events is in the works, which is intended to ensure better cooperation between the Luxembourg police, the federal police and the state police of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland.
Another topic of the meeting was the planned expansion of the CGDIS to include a unit similar to the German “Technisches Hilfewerk”, the German civil and disaster protection organization. Interior Minister Gloden announced that he would comment on this again soon.
