European Police Office: based in the Hague in the Netherlands, its aim is to improve the effectiveness and cooperation between the law enforcement agencies of the Member States in preventing and combating serious international organised crime. Its main work is the collation, analysis and dissemination of information. (See Police: Europol, Website)
a body that coordinates international police cooperation within the EU. It is based in The Hague, in the Netherlands. (more information)
Europol, the European Police Office, aims at improving the effectiveness of cooperation between the police authorities of Member States in preventing and combating terrorism, unlawful drug trafficking and other serious forms of international organised crime.
police organization for the European Union; aims to improve effectiveness and cooperation among European police forces
European Police Office. Europol is the European law enforcement organisation which aims to improve effectiveness and co-operation among Member States to prevent and combat terrorism, unlawful drug trafficking and other serious forms of international organised crime.
Europol provides a structure for developing police cooperation between Member States in preventing and combating serious forms of international organised crime. It initially confined its efforts to the fight against drugs, but its terms of reference were gradually extended to other serious crimes, such as clandestine immigration networks, trafficking in stolen vehicles, human trafficking, child pornography, counterfeiting currency and falsification of other means of payment, trafficking in radioactive and nuclear substances, terrorism and money laundering.
Based in The Hague, Europol is an international agency, established by 'the Europol Convention' - signed and ratified by the Member States of the European Union but not part of the European Union - that provides umbrella support for cooperation between their national police forces. To take part in operations, an "organised criminal structure must be involved and two or more Member States should be affected". The activities in question include drug, vehicle or people trafficking, trafficking in nuclear materials, forgery of money or other means of payment, terrorism and money laundering.
Europol (the name is a contraction of European Police Office) is the European Union's criminal intelligence agency. Enjoying immunity from prosecution, Europol became fully operational on July 1, 1999.
