Netherlands '%ulumatum Tirana: Turkish Albanian cocaine groups

Albanian Police representatives attended the European Police Chiefs Convention, held at the EUROOPOL headquarters in The Hague on September 6th and 7th. In this event, Albanian Police General Director Haki Chako met with the French Police delegation, a state that in July-August, raised alarm signals for the number of asylum seekers from Albania. At the meeting with the French Police delegation, the prevention of Albanian asylum seekers with the destination of European countries, particularly France, was discussed. “Co-operation with Albanian Police has resulted in the decline of the number of Albanian citizens seeking asylum in France”, French delegation leader Jean-Philippe Lecouffe, director of the Judiciary Police at the French National Gendarmery, stressed. Police's “Office stressed that interpolar police co-operation was discussed and related to the crackdown on Albanian-speaking criminal groups that operate on French territory, agreeing to establish joint investigative groups, aimed at investigating, sending to the justice bodies of the perpetrators, as well as sequesting and confiscating the criminal assets that stem from them”. On the other hand, the statement says that at the centre of discussions with the Dutch police delegation was the intensifying of bilateral police co-operation, first in the fight against organised crime, especially Albanian-speaking criminal organisations, which operate mainly in the trafficking of narcotics (kokaines) from the Netherlands in the direction of other European countries; second, in identifying and apprehending persons in international research, who are hiding in Dutch territory. Dutch “homologists engaged in a higher exchange of information with the Albanian side, while agreeing on the establishment of joint investigative groups”, police stressed. According to her, during the meeting held with the Spanish Police delegation, increased co-operation was discussed in identifying and apprehending persons who are hiding in Spanish territory:

in the fight against organised crime and other crimes, carrying out joint operations among police: identifying the Albanian-speaking criminal contingent, etc.