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Executive Summary
May 2016
Foreword
EUROPOL
Rob Wainwright
Europol Director
INTERPOL
Jrgen Stock
INTERPOL Secretary General
Key Findings
Introduction
The exceptional scale of migrant smuggling to
and within the EU has triggered an increased
number of actions taken at the international
level.
Providing
recommendations
on
key
operational areas to target as well as a
roadmap to enhance European and
international
law
enforcement
(LE)
cooperation; and,
Polycriminality
Some of the suspects involved in migrant
smuggling are also involved in other types of
crime such as drug trafficking, document forgery,
property crime and trafficking in human beings.
In 2015, over 220 smugglers were identified by
Europol as being involved in more than one crime
area. Out of these, 22% were linked to drug
trafficking, 20% to trafficking in human beings,
20% to property crime and 18% to forgery of
documents.
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Recommendations
At the 2nd Europol and INTERPOL Operational
Forum on Countering Migrant Smuggling
Networks, the participants endorsed the
following conclusions:
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Methodology
This report relies on information available at or
collected by Europol and INTERPOL as well as
relevant open sources.
The findings in this report emerge from the
thorough analysis of a broad range of sources and
provide the most detailed assessment ever
produced on migrant smuggling. This report is
unique in its blending of intelligence from EU and
non-EU sources:
Questionnaires provided
National Central Bureaus;
investigations
by
INTERPOLs
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