U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) donation to SECI Center
Bucharest, 19 December 2006 - - United States Ambassador to Romania, Mr. Nicholas Taubman announced today that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has donated significant computer network hardware and software upgrades to the SECI Center in Bucharest. These upgrades provide the SECI Center an improvement in the speed and security of investigative data exchange, increased network availability, as well as secure and inexpensive Internet based voice and facsimile communications capability.
The value of the donation to the SECI Center is approximately 208,000.00 USD.
Concerning the computers network upgrade donation, U.S. Ambassador Taubman stated “the objective of the United States’ assistance to the SECI Center is to ensure the long-term and self-supported viability of SECI and the important law enforcement work done both at the SECI Center in Bucharest and in the various SECI Member States across the region. Fast and secure information exchange is vital to SECI’s success in combating organized crime in the Balkans. I am proud that the FBI as well as the other U.S. law enforcement agencies are partnered with SECI to guarantee its preeminent position in regional law enforcement coordination.”
The SECI Center, located in the Romanian Parliament Building, brings together police and customs officials from twelve South East Europe countries to coordinate investigative and enforcement actions targeting serious trans-border organized crime. The United States has supported the SECI Center as a permanent observer since the Center’s opening in early 2000. In addition to the FBI, the United States is represented at the SECI Center by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Department of Justice (DOJ) and the United States Secret Service (USSS)
The value of the donation to the SECI Center is approximately 208,000.00 USD.
Concerning the computers network upgrade donation, U.S. Ambassador Taubman stated “the objective of the United States’ assistance to the SECI Center is to ensure the long-term and self-supported viability of SECI and the important law enforcement work done both at the SECI Center in Bucharest and in the various SECI Member States across the region. Fast and secure information exchange is vital to SECI’s success in combating organized crime in the Balkans. I am proud that the FBI as well as the other U.S. law enforcement agencies are partnered with SECI to guarantee its preeminent position in regional law enforcement coordination.”
The SECI Center, located in the Romanian Parliament Building, brings together police and customs officials from twelve South East Europe countries to coordinate investigative and enforcement actions targeting serious trans-border organized crime. The United States has supported the SECI Center as a permanent observer since the Center’s opening in early 2000. In addition to the FBI, the United States is represented at the SECI Center by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Department of Justice (DOJ) and the United States Secret Service (USSS)
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