Interior Minister Taulant Balla says that he is cooperating closely with British partners in several areas, which include the fight against narcotics, money laundering, but also the self-cleaning of the ranks of the State Police.
Speaking after the meeting he held with the leaders of the NCA in London, the National Anti-Crime Agency for joint operations against criminal groups, Balla said that the focus of the conversation was the self-cleaning process of the police and cooperation with Interpol on the extradition of wanted persons from Dubai. and other countries.
"We have an excellent cooperation with the British law enforcement authorities, naturally some of the issues we discussed to get the British experience, in what I have called the self-purification of the State Police from the elements that collaborate with organized crime. This is a process that has been going on for a long time in the British Police, as well as the Vetting process. Exchange of experiences is necessary.
We will take models from them, how they have approached the control of telephone communications of Police officers. Here in Great Britain, Police officers cannot use phones other than those given to them by the institution itself. We also discussed a problem that is often discussed in Albania, such as Europol's operations for the Enrochat and ECC applications, because it is the same challenge for them, and naturally there are also investigations into the involvement of Police officers.
Another part is joint operations, in the approach to criminal groups involved in drug trafficking, as well as the investigation and money laundering, not only in the form we know but also the involvement of criminal groups for money laundering through cryptocurrencies". declared Balla.