Post on 18-Mar-2020
Estonia and International CooperationIndependence declared on 24.02.1918 and restored on 20.08.1991
Total area: 45 339 km² Population: 1 316 000Ethnic groups: 68.8% Estonians
25.1% Russians6.1% others
GDP per capita: 29,239 USD
International cooperation:Interpol - 1992Europol - 2002European Union and NATO - 2004Schengen - 2007Euro-zone - 2011
Police and Border Guard Board (PBGB)
PBGB started its work on 2010 when Police Board, Central CriminalPolice, Public Order Police, Border Guard Board, and Citizenship andMigration Board were merged.
By merging the agencies, all resources related to the ensuring ofinternal security – people, experience, funds and equipment werecombined under one management.
This way the field of internal security is developed as a whole and theexisting resources can be utilized in the most effective way.
Police and Border Guard Board (PBGB)
With 5000 employees PBGB is the biggest state agency in Estonia.
The main tasks of PBGB are:
Security and public order in the state
The securing of the external border of the European Union
The investigation and prevention of crimes and offences
The determination of citizenship and issuing of documents
PBGB is a police authority. All officers, regardless of their full titleor position, whether a border guard, a traffic police officer, aninvestigator or a pilot – are police officers.
PBGB`s budget for 2017 was 165 million euros.
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POLICE PBGB
The Structure of PBGB
Internal Control Bureau
Internal Audit Bureau
Intelligence Management and Investigation Department
Centralised and sensitive investigations, operational information management.
Central Criminal Police, ImmigrationBureau, Aviation Group and the
Maritime Fleet.
Development Department
Centralised development and planning of all PBGB
services.
Planning, budgeting, analysing and international
cooperation.
Administration
Centralised department of
support services.
Logistics, personnel, translation, public relations and other support services.
4 Regional PrefecturesDirector General
Central Criminal Police
Prefectures - PBGB regional structural units
NORTH PREFECTURE1189 police officers10% of the area38% of population49% of crimes
WEST PREFECTURE442 police officers38% of the area18% of population12% of crimes
EAST PREFECTURE739 police officers16% of the area18% of population19% of crimes
SOUTH PREFECTURE877 police officers36% of the area26% of population20% of crimes
Estonia in total:1 340 000 inhabitants27 125 crimes (2018)
Internal Control Bureau
INTERNAL CONTROL BUREAU1st Division (6)2nd Division (16)3rd Division (7)
ICB WEST Division4 police officers
ICB EAST Division5 police officers
ICB SOUTH Division6 police officers
ICB annual statistics:
~ 40 disciplinary proceedings
~ 280 complaints, applications, formal notices
~ 70 Investigations on service related incidents
~ 70 criminal proceedings;
~ 30 proceeding of misdemeanours
~ 4000 background checks
Functions of ICB
• Preventing, combating and proceeding of
offences and disciplinary offences of officials
and employees;
• Performance of background checks;
• Monitoring of information processed by means
of information and communication technology
used at the PBGB
• Organisation of the establishment of rights to
access the IT systems
Reactive vs preventive approach to misconducts
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Ascertainment of circumstances
Motives,
Immanent cause
Values
Judicial and/or tactical
circumstances
Bill of indictment, punishment yes/no
Summary, conclusions, proposals
Incident, offence, misconduct
Aid, councelling,
assistance to officials
Review of procedures,
tactics, training.
Awareness raising
Why did it
happen?
What
happened?
How can
we prevent
it?
How do we
react?
Communication
PREVENTION
Reaction
Threat and risk assessment
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information &
intelligence
Annual action plan
Threat assessmentRisk assessment
of units
InvestigationsPreventive
measures
Control
activitiesMonitoring
Impact of
legislation
Econimical
influence
Impact of
organizational
matters
TechnologyHuman
capital
Identification of
possible
offences
Impact
Existing mitigation measures
Likelihood
- Targeted awareness
raising
- E-learning courses
- Guidance
- Communication
- On-site inspections
- Off-site inspections
- Service related checks
- Different algorithms
based on logfiles
- Network monitoring
- Data protection
- Ancillary activities
Gathering intelligence
Delitescent crime
Post factum investigations