Support to upgrade border services

TIRANA, Feb. 9 – The EU funded project “EU Training package” that was handed over to the Albanian State Police and Custom services will support the upgrade of border services to EU standards and the implementation of the integrated border management strategy. The total cost of the project is over 6 million euro. During 2010 the EU provided 93 million euro of assistance to Albania.
Strengthening the border controls in Albania is an essential tool in the fight against organized crime, corruption and illegal migration.
The “EU Training package” for border services, was handed over today to the Albanian State Police and Custom services. This package was prepared in the framework of the EU-funded project of assistance to the Albanian Police “PAMECA” and has been rolled out by the project to all border control services, in the form of a “train the trainers” programme now part of the training curricula of the border services. It improves the services delivered at the borders, and also supports the fight against organized crime, corruption and illegal migration.
After two years of Border Control Training at the light of EU standards the PAMECA project handovers today the final Training package including European and Albanian Best practices, training modules in car thefts, risk analysis, Schengen aquis, etc.
This training has already been delivered at all border crossing points and part of the permanent training programme for border services in Albania. The project has trained trainers of the Border and Migration Police and Customs Administration. The training curricula developed and delivered by the project supports the implementation of the Schengen acquis in the area as well as the implementation of the Albanian Integrated Border Management Strategy and its Action Plan.