The Diplomat
Border agents from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Paraguay have participated in an EU training cycle for the detection of forged travel documents, coordinated by the International and Ibero-American Foundation for Administration and Public Policy (FIIAPP), a public entity linked to the Spanish Cooperation.
According to FIIAPP in a press release, the new forms of document forgery “are a challenge for global security” and represent a crime that “precedes others of greater gravity, such as drug trafficking, human trafficking, migrant smuggling and, in general, any attack on human rights committed by international criminal organizations”.
In order to generate harmonized mechanisms of action to combat this threat, EUROFRONT – a program of delegated cooperation between the European Union and Latin America to strengthen the effectiveness of four border management – has led a cycle of seven training courses, developed over nine months of knowledge exchange between Latin America and Europe.
A total of 235 border agents from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Paraguay have been trained in this cycle, coordinated by FIIAPP and whose development in 2022 was based on EUROFRONT’s long-term objective: to create a Latin American network of specialists in the detection of counterfeit travel documents. This network, in cooperation with the Athens Point of the Spanish National Police, would provide a rapid and effective response to queries about questionable travel documents.
The training was provided jointly by EUROFRONT staff and experts from Migration Colombia and the National Directorate of Migration of Argentina. Among the 235 trainees, 35.32% are women and 64.69% men.
