Prime Minister Donald Tusk is taking part in 10th anniversary celebrations of the setting up of the Central Investigation Bureau Police Headquarters in Szczytno, northeast Poland.

PM Tusk will present awards for outstanding service to officers of Poland’s FBI and is accompanied by Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration, Jerzy Miller and the Chief of Police, Andrzej Matejuk

The government ministers watched tactics and techniques used by officers of the bureau. The program also includes a training seminar on the contemporary threats of organized crime, 10 years after signing the United Nations Convention in Palermo against Transnational Organized Crime.

Central Bureau of Investigation was established in February 2000 by merging the Office for Combating Organised Crime and the Office against drugs trafficking at Police Headquarters.

In the past ten years the unit has arrested 13,000 criminals, including more than 1,400 heads of organized groups and seized drugs worth about 500 million dollars and secured by property worth nearly 2 billion zlotys. (pg)

Source: IAR