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On February 25th, 2021 first ever EEA Grant 2014-2021 programme “International police cooperation” (hereinafter – Programme) Project Monitoring Board meeting was held, which is one of the most imperative instruments to ensure successful project implementation monitoring and give stakeholders an official framework to share experience, examples of goods practice and challenges. During the meeting, […]

On 18th of February 2021 an agreement was signed between the Ministry of Welfare of the Republic of Latvia and the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Latvia on the implementation of project “Support for Barhanus Implementation in Latvia”. The aim of the project is to create a one-stop support agency for child victims […]

On December 14th, 2020 a videoconference of the Cooperation Committee of the EEA Grants 2014 – 2021 programme “International Police Cooperation and Combating Crime” took place to discuss the latest developments and the progress of the programme, as well as the conceptual approval of the Fund for Bilateral Relations activities plan. The Ministry of the […]

The programme International Police Cooperation and Combating Crime benefits from a 15 000 000 € grant through the European Economic Area Grants 2014-2021 and 2 647 059 € as national co-financing. The aim of the programme International Police Cooperation and Combating Crime is to improve crime prevention and investigation in Latvia. As of December 2020, […]

On November 12th and 13th, 2020 State Police organized an online seminar “Criminal law norm and criminal procedure interpretation methodology peculiarities: methods of interpretation and application”. The goal of the seminar was to give its participants theoretical and practical knowledge, academic findings and practical techniques in the field of economic crime investigation about criminal law […]

On the July 27th, the Director-General of the State Revenue Service Ieva Jaunzeme and the Deputy State Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Latvia Ingūna Aire signed agreements on the implementation of two major projects: “Preventing and combating economic crime at the Border Crossing Point Terehova” and “Promoting cooperation between […]

On Thursday, October 1st, the opening event of the program “International Police Cooperation” funded by European Economic Area (EEA) Financial Mechanism for the Period 2014-2021 took place with Director-General of the State Revenue Service Ieva Jaunzeme, Deputy State Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Latvia Ingūna Aire, the current acting […]

On the September 22nd 2020 during a work meeting in the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Riga the Ministry of the Interior as the Program Operator informed about the progress on the implementation of the European Economic Area (EEA) Financial Mechanism for the Period 2014-2021 program “International Police Cooperation and Combating Crime”. Program Operator’s manager Deputy […]

On 6th October this year, Jēkabs Straume, the Director of the Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau (KNAB) and Ingūna Aire, Deputy State Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior, signed an agreement on the implementation of the “Support for the establishment of a whistle-blowing system in Latvia” project. KNAB has received support for the implementation […]