Police World Edition 3 2014

IPANews

GimbornSeminarsBring Professional Opportunities

Left: DaveBolaand Mick Luke

attendees said that in their countries they didn’t haveamappingprocess and it was interesting to seehowdifferent countries recordorganised crimeand the factors that wouldenable them tomappotential OCG members. Aswell as sharingour knowledge and tactics therewere lots of opportunities to learn things from theother speakers such asMarkBullenof HertfordshirePolicewho was talkingabout theactivities of Russian OrganisedCrime in theUK. A lot of the feedbackwe received fromother delegates showshow iconicBritishpolicing still is and howweare leading theway.We’re in the minority that don’t carry firearms andpeople aredisbelieving inmost countries of howwe operate thewaywedowithout them!” Mickwent on to say, “The IPAoffers lots of advantages tomembers such as professional opportunities, social opportunities and cultural opportunities. Therehavebeen instances inmy career whenhaving linkswith colleagues inother countrieshashelpedwithmy investigations. It gives yougreater understandingand learning on issues that can thenbebrought in to force andadapted to improvepracticeshere. Other

MickLukeandDaveBolaattended the IPA conference - OrganisedCrimeCrossBorder Delinquency andCrossBorder Prosecution in Gimborn, Germany. They bothdelivered seminar workshops, on the subject of NottinghamshirePolice’s approach to gangs, to IPA representatives from countries suchasRussia, Cyprus, Sweden, Brazil, Germany, Northern Irelandand theRepublic of Ireland. SectionUKPresident andViceChair of the Nottinghamshirebranch,Mick Luke, chaired the conference inGimborn givingexamples of Nottinghamshire’s approachas learning material. Mick said, “ I spokeabout UrbanStreet Gangs andhowwemanage them inNottingham. USGs arenot a knownphenomena inEurope but our approach is something that the seminarmembers found very interesting. A lot of the tacticsweuse, especially aroundearly interventionwork, arenot usedby the countries whoattended so this couldbe something that they could takebackandapply.” DaveBola gaveaworkshoponmapping OrganisedCrimeGroups and the threat riskand harmassociatedwith them. He said, “ Again the

Below: DaveBola speakingat Gimborn

benefits include the social element to the organisationand the chance to represent the IPAat national events.” Formore infomationonStudyOpportunities at Gimborn visit: www.ipa-uk.org/Study

Toru on Tour

toKoln Asanewmember, Iwanted to sharewithothermembers thegreat time I hadonmyfirst visit to the IPAKolncarnival 2014. On the trip Imet the Chair of the IPAKolnbranch, Herr Gunter Rammel, alongwith

Herr Gunter Rammel andSimonOconnell

many other police colleagues. I alsohad theopportunity topresent Gunter witha Leicestershirepolicehelmet as a gift frommy branch. TheKolnCarnival is a carnival that takes placeevery year inKoln, Germany. Traditionally the carnival isdeclaredopenat 11minutes past 11on the11February. TheStreet carnival, also called ‘the crazy days’, takes placebetween theFat Thursday (Weiberfastnacht) andends onAshWednesday (Aschermittwoch). Thehighlight of the carnival isRoseMonday (Rosenmontag), twodaysbeforeAshWednesday. All through these days, the localsmasquerade. This iswell wortha trip so check your diaries for 2015 (Thursday12 February untilWednesday18February2015). For programmeand details visit: www.ipa-koeln.de/ KolleAlaaf, SimonO’Connell , PublicityOfficer Leicestershirebranch.

Duringhisbrief stay, Toru chatted toMick Luke, President, and Iain Sirrell, National Co-ordinator, ILDEP (International Learningand Development ExchangeProgramme) whowereat theAdminCentre for a meeting. Photo shows, left to right: IainSirrell, ToruWarigaya, LesleyHughes, Mick Luke

TheSecretaryGeneral of Section Japan, ToruWarigaya,madeaflying visit to theAdministrativeCentres of the International Secretariat and SectionUK inApril. Whilst touringEuropewithhis son, Toru took theopportunity to visit the IPA’s AdminCentrebased in West Bridgford, Nottingham. Hewas greetedby LesleyHughes, Office Administrator, whohadpreviouslymet Toruat internationalmeetings.

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