Best Practices in Enforcement and Prosecution

CWIT Final Conference/Lyon/INTERPOL Headquarters/26th June 2015Presented by Jürgen Braun/Polizei Bremen

Major aspects of best practices

in enforcement (of waste shipment inspections)

Established collaboration Sufficient personnel Net of favoured inspection locations Inspection philosophies and common approaches International networks and inspection activities

and prosecution

Prompt information/data transfer to prosecuting agencies Specialised investigators Specialised public prosecutors

Established collaboration between authorities

Fruitful and well-practised collaboration between

Local authorities (on management and operational level)

Competent environmental authority Police Customs

Local authorities and state authorities and federal authorities

Local authorities and authorities in other member states

Gothenborg

Hamburg Bremen

Amsterdam Rotterdam

Antwerpen

Southampton

Le Havre

Upstream waste sites

in towns and rural areas

Major seaports as EU gateways for waste export

Chain of favoured locations for waste shipment inspections

Motorways

Inland ports and inland waterways

Inspections of upstream waste sites avoid illegal waste shipments ab origine

Trading locations for export second hand cars

Storage and packing locations for second hand goods containers

Multi agency approach to detect them and keep them

under control

Legal waste sites

Waste sites in a twilight zoneIllegal waste sites

Established mixture of inspection philosophies

Intelligence led inspections in the daily routine of highly specialised units

Seaports

Temporary and regularly multi agencycontrol operations

Highways/Inland waterways/Upstream waste sites

At random inspections in the daily routineof not highly specialised units

Highways

Access to data

Intelligence led inspections in seaports

More detailled

inspection

Using risk indicators

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Established common approaches

Agreed standards to decide if used goods or waste Agreed methods to produce evidence for classification as waste Standard criteria for reporting, seizure etc.

Participation in international networks and inspection activities to combat illegal waste shipments,

like

IMPEL TFS INTERPOL ENIGMA INECE Seaport Environmental Security Network AQUAPOL

trains collaboration and improves and spreads knowledge

Effective prosecution of waste shipment criminality

Illegal waste shipments are prosecuted as crimes acc. to § 326 German criminal code

Direct and prompt information on suspected illegal shipments from environment authorities to prosecuting agencies speed up proceedings

Specialized investigators in police units for effective waste shipment crime investigations

Public prosecutors with special knowledge in waste shipment law can bring prosecution to an effective end

Thank you for your kind attention!

Jürgen Braun/Polizei BremenDaniel-von-Bürenstraße 2B, D-28195 Bremen/phone +49 (0) 421-3629823

juergen.braun@polizei.bremen.de/www.poilzei-bremen.de