Two Detective Sergeants from the West Cork Division selected to undergo the CEPOL Exchange Programme 2018.

Two Detective Sergeants from the West Cork Division selected to undergo the CEPOL Exchange Programme 2018.

The CEPOL Exchange Programme is an Erasmus style exchange programme that allows Law Enforcement officers to spend a week with a counterpart in their country for the purpose of exchanging knowledge, good practices, initiating cooperation projects, fostering deep, plus long lasting learning and networking opportunities.

Two Detectives Sergeants from the West Cork Division will travel to Portugal in the coming months for one week where they will work with officers from the Guarda Nacional Republicana (GNR) involved in both drug trafficking and organised property crime.

Speaking at Bandon Garda Station today 9th July 2018, Chief Superintendent Con Cadogan said ‘As part of An Garda Síochána’s Modernisation and Renewal Programme 2016-2021, we are looking at best practices in other jurisdictions which will provide our staff training in key learning areas suitable to their roles. The CEPOL programme seeks to enhance cooperation in combating crime. It is based on mobility, mutual learning and provides participants with an opportunity to familiarise themselves with working methods of other countries which I have no doubt will have benefit to not only to Gardaí in West Cork but to the whole organisation’

As part of the programme two officers from the Guarda Nacional Republicana have already spent a week with An Garda Síochána visiting the Cork West Division, Regional Headquarters in Anglesea Street, Cork City, the Garda College and Garda Headquarters in Dublin.