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SECI Center is an operational regional organization bringing together police and customs authorities from 13 member countries in Southeast Europe. |
| SECI Center is delivering valuable support to the national customs and law enforcement agencies by offering a trusty environment for information sharing, knowledge development, joint planning and common action in the field of trans-border crime.(learn more) |
BUCHAREST, February 4th - The SECI Center Director, Gürbüz Bahadir, discussed today with the representatives of the General Directorate for Intelligence and Internal Protection within the Romanian Ministry of Administration and Interior about international organized crime networks, as well as about the SECI Centers role in the region.
BUCHAREST, February 3rd - Gürbüz Bahadir, the SECI Center director, spoke today to H.E. Tanya van Gool, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Netherlands to Bucharest, about the law enforcement cooperation in the region and SELEC, the future of the SECI Center.
BUCHAREST, February 3rd - The SECI Center Director, Gürbüz Bahadir, met with director Florentin Robescu and other representatives of the General Directorate for Countering Organised Crime within the Romanian Police. The focus of the discussions was on the importance of police cooperation in the region, especially among the organized crime departments from different countries and the support of the SECI Center in fighting transborder crime activities.
New Director of the SECI Center
BUCHAREST, January 14th - From the beginning of 2010, the SECI Center has a new director. Gürbüz Bahadir, the representative of the Republic of Turkey, was elected for a two-year mandate as the organization's director, by the members of the Joint Cooperation Committee, the highest decision body of the SECI Center, at its 31st extraordinary meeting, held in September, 2009, in Thessaloniki, Hellenic Republic. (more) |
SECI Center is turning into SELEC Southeast European Law Enforcement Center. SECI Center - 10 years of fight against trans-border crime
BUCHAREST, December 10th - Bucharest hosted the representatives of the fight against trans-border crime from 13 states in the region. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey have been partners for 10 years in the fight against trafficking in human beings, illegal migration, trafficking in drugs, smuggling of cigarettes and counterfeit goods, stolen vehicles trafficking, cyber crime and terrorism.
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Controlled Delivery Successfully Conducted
BUCHAREST, November 26th - Three SECI Center member countries, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey and Greece, worked together and coordinated a controlled delivery operation, which led to 44,8 kg of heroin seized and 8 people arrested.(more) |
In 2004, Operation Flash Hotel started as an investigation initiated by Romania and continued through information exchanges during the preliminary phase of Operation Mirage 2004.
Surveillance measures were implemented focusing on the traffickers and victims in Romania and Turkey.
Through international coordination, with SECI Center support, traffickers were arrested on both sides: 6 arrests were made and more than 20 Romanian victims were identified, 6 of them ( including 1 minor) were assisted by IOM for repatriation.
The investigating officers estimated that the proceeds of the crime are in excess of 1.5 million Euro.
