EUPOL COPPS and GIZ strengthen cooperation ties.
This week, as part of our ongoing engagement with our International Partners on the ground, EUPOL COPPS Police Advisory Section hosted a team from GIZ in order to discuss and foster further areas of cooperation between the two organisations. A number of themes were discussed, including Community Policing, Training, Gender as well as Leadership and Organisational Development, and Criminal Investigation. The two teams explored concrete ideas as to how to further shape cooperation in a way that seeks to strengthen support to our beneficiaries, whilst ensuring that our efforts are carried out in a collaborative manner, avoiding duplication and making the most of our joint resources. EUPOL COPPS strongly encourages cooperation between international partners. For this reason, among others, such meetings will become a regular feature on our agendas.
2022-10-13 
The Working Group for International Police Missions from the German Federal Police visits EUPOL COPPS
Earlier this week, the AG IPM (Working Group for International Police Missions) from the German Federal Police, responsible for coordinating all Police Peacekeeping Missions and Frontex in the EU and UN, paid a visit to EUPOL COPPS in order to experience the Mission’s ongoing support to partners in theatre. The visiting Delegation received a profound insight into the engagements of EUPOL COPPS and also witnessed actual collaboration between one of our primary partners, the Palestinian Civil Police, and EUPOL COPPS by means of the PCPS, Cybercrime Department and the FJPD. The fruitful and open discussions took place in a spirit of solidarity and cooperation, and areas of possible improvements, both for strengthening collaboration as well as for future deployments, were identified.
2022-10-13 
EUPOL COPPS supports community policing activity in Salfit
The Youth Council in Salfit and the Palestinian Civil Police (PCP) agreed to help farmers to harvest their olive groves in three areas in the Salfit district. The Police will help with the logistics and will participate in picking olives. The activity falls within Community Policing as well as within the Media and PR branch of the PCP, both concepts consistently supported by EUPOL COPPS. Public Relations as well as Community Policing are at the heart of the PCP activities, and aim at strengthening ties with all sectors of society. EUPOL COPPS reiterates our support to the PCP in their endeavors.
2022-10-12 
EUPOL COPPS Adviser visits illegal dumping sites in Al-Ram district
On the 26 September 2022, EUPOL COPPS Mission visited illegal dumping sites in Al-Ram district, south of Ramallah, to determine the extent of damage for the environment. The visit to the two areas — Jabaa and Qalandya — was arranged by Environmental Quality Authority, Governor of Jerusalem District and Al – Ram Municipality. The types of waste that the joint group witnessed on the illegal dumpsites includes different kinds of waste, such as construction waste, hazardous waste (asphalt, painting, electrical, sanitary installations, rubber, glass, plastic and metal). The joint team also noticed a strong smell of rotten organic material. On one of the dumpsites there was on fire, sending heavy smoke billowing out of the area, which poses a potential health hazard. “Open waste dumping has many grave outcomes such as low soil quality, ground water contamination and spread of deadly diseases. With human population multiplying in thousands, it is critical to come up with safer disposal options,” said Michael Ljungqvist, the Mission’s Adviser Environmental Investigations. EUPOL COPPS, which provides support to the Palestinian Civil Police and the Judiciary, has recently paid special attention to environmental issues in order to assist Palestinian counterparts in maintaining a clean environment.
2022-09-28
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