World BORDERPOL Congress Prelim Congress Prog

Congress Programme
WEDNEsday 10 th DECEMBER
9:00am - 10:30am
Plenary Session - Border Surveillance Techniques and Systems
Chair: Tom Tass, Executive Director, BORDERPOL
Border surveillance is one of the biggest challenges facing our border
security agencies. Many land borders, with no physical barriers, provide easy
access routes for criminal activities and illegal border crossings, whilst many
coastlines are relatively unprotected outside major ports. What are the latest
border surveillance techniques and systems available from UAVs to ground
based systems? What are the legalities behind the use and collection/sharing
of information and how can systems be integrated into existing operations
to ensure interoperability and enhanced border protection? How can open
architecture systems be successfully integrated with legacy systems?
11:15am - 12:30pm
James Douglas, Assistant National Coordinator PROTECT &
PREPARE, ACPO, UK*
Brig. Gen. Greg Haase, Director, US Joint Interagency Counter-
Trafficking Center, US European Command*
Updates on UAV systems and possible use for Border Control
Commodore Vasan Seshadri (ret’d), Head Strategy and Security
Studies, Center for Asia Studies, India
Social Media-informed Border Awareness
Caitlin Mulligan, Senior Consultant, Novetta, USA
Senior Representative, EUROSUR Project, GMV, Spain*
Workshops
Closed Agency Workshop - Travel
and other document fraud: who are
behind today’s activities and how do
we share information in existence to
identify and monitor?
Chair: Hungarian National Police Border
Police Department
Cross border criminal activities remains the
mainstay of activities for border agencies,
whether it is from human trafficking or illegal
trade/narcotics. Criminal gangs move to
increasingly brash and innovative techniques
to establish new systems/channels to
facilitate their cross border criminal activities,
including cyber attacks on the movement
of personal data of travellers. What are the
latest challenges facing border agencies, from
the front line and beyond to the unexpected
internal facilitators?
Ralph Markert, Assistant Director, International
Partnerships & Development, INTERPOL, France
Bruno Franckx, Project Manager, Airpol,
Belgium*
Breakout Session - Crime across
borders, crime at the border
Chair: Vasan Seshadri, Asian Secretariat,
BORDERPOL, India
Cross border criminal activities remains the
mainstay of activities for border agencies,
whether it is from human trafficking or illegal trade
in narcotics, dangerous substances (CBRNe)
animals etc. Criminal gangs move to increasingly
brash and innovative techniques to establish new
systems/channels to facilitate their cross border
criminal activities. What are the latest challenges
facing border agencies, from the front line and
beyond to the unexpected internal facilitators and
what tools are at their disposal?
Pol. Lt. Gen. Suraphong Khemasingkhi,
Bureau Chief, Thai Border Patrol Police*
Senior Representative, Nigerian Immigration
Service and Border Management, Nigeria*
Better border security through better name
matching
Chris Brown, Basis Technology & Customs
Border Protection, USA
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