Seven EU member states, including the Netherlands and Belgium, have prepared proposals for the safety of community ports to combat organized crime. This was reported by the British newspaper FINANCIAL TIMES (FT), citing the document acquired.
It offers to unite safety standards, in particular, introducing the "Communities of Verification of Port staff, foreign experts."
According to the authors of the document, law enforcement agencies should also disseminate information about the seizure of illegal goods and the strategies of criminals, such as transportation terminals, from which they use:
The document calls on the European Commission (EC) "Strengthen the available monitoring and reporting tools" to identify the most effective ways to implement both EU member states and "European or global level".
As the newspaper's security and justice, the newspaper, the ports are the main transit points of drug trafficking, and their staff must "become more resilient to drug criminals", who "spare no one in their threats and intimidation."
