European Police Academy

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European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Education and Training
CEPOL
 

CEPOL headquarters in Budapest
English name European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training
French name Agence de l'Union européenne pour la formation des services pressifs
Organization type European Union Agency
Seat of the organs Budapest , Hungary
Chair Detlef Schröder
founding

September 20, 2005

www.cepol.europa.eu

The European Police Academy ( EPA ) ( CEPOL , French C ollège E uropéen de Pol ice ) is a European institution for training the European police. As of July 1, 2016, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Education and Training (EPA) took over as her successor.

The academy was founded by the decision of the Council of European Justice and Home Affairs Ministers in 2000. It has been based in Budapest , Hungary, since November 2014 . Before that, it was based in Bramshill House in the English county of Hampshire .

The various training institutions in the Member States work together in the EPA . For Germany this is the German Police University (DHPol) in Münster-Hiltrup . The purpose of the EPA is to strengthen cooperation between national authorities in the field of crime prevention and prevention. The EPA also cooperates with national police academies outside the EU. Special cooperation is taking place with the acceding countries and with Norway and Iceland as well as the Central European Police Academy (MEPA).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Decision of the Council of 22 December 2000 on the establishment of the European Police College. The secretariat of the EPA, established in 2005 as a European Union (EU) agency by Council Decision 2005/681 / JHA of 20 September 2005, is based in Bramshill, United Kingdom. 2000/820 / JI (PDF; 103.65 kB), accessed on May 21, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Regulation (EU) 2015/2219 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2015 on the European Union Agency for Education and Training in the Field of Law Enforcement (EPA) and for the replacement and repeal of Decision 2005/681 / JI of the Council (PDF; 517 kB), accessed on January 28, 2020 . Chapter 1, Article 1, sentence 2: "The EPA established by this regulation takes the place of the European Police College (EPA) established by Decision 2005/681 / JHA."
  3. ↑ CEPOL officially inaugurates its new headquarters in Budapest , accessed on May 30, 2015.

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