The Diplomat
The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, yesterday highlighted the work carried out by the International Cooperation Division of the National Police since its creation, ten years ago, in the fight against “multinational organized crime”.
The creation of this body was a “qualitative and quantitative leap” in the National Police, which shows “the importance we give in Spain to international cooperation and our determination to continue developing it in an interdependent world,” said Grande-Marlaska during the inauguration of the conference organized on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the International Cooperation Division of the National Police.
For this reason, he assured, the next Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union will put its “priority focus on multilateral cooperation through organizations such as Interpol, Ameripol and the agencies and mechanisms of the European Union”.
The International Cooperation Division celebrates its tenth anniversary with the organization of an international conference under the title 10 years facing global security challenges, which, in its opening ceremony, held at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was attended by the Minister of the Interior and a video intervention by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, and with the attendance of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Global Affairs, Ángeles Moreno Bau.
