Inter-Agency Cooperation and Information Sharing

Rocco Messina Head of Border Security and Management Unit /UN OCT

Snezhana Trajanovska, MSc Director /MARRI RC (Migration, Asylum, Refugees Regional Initiative Regional Centre)

It is well established that inter-agency and international information sharing is essential for effectively fighting cross border crimes such as terrorism, THB, weapons and drug smuggling, the trade in cultural heritage and protected species. With no formal global organisation for agencies at the border, this Closed Agency Workshop is a mechanism and resource for agencies to discuss sharing information and how the international community can collaborate to achieve common aims.