Continuing activities to improve cooperation between intelligence and security sector bodies and innovations in the field of undertaking preventive, intelligence and procedural activities, through measures defined by the Bureau for Operational Coordination, Minister of Interior Danilo Šaranović, Minister of Defense Dragan Krapović, Director of the National Security Agency Ivica Janović and Acting Director of the Customs Administration Maja Vučinić, signed today, within the tenth session of the Bureau for Operational Coordination, an Agreement on Cooperation with the Maritime Information Unit, announced Aleksa Bečić, coordinator of the Bureau for Operational Coordination of Intelligence and Security Sector Bodies (BOK).
The aforementioned Agreement, as explained by Bečić, was drafted by the Interdepartmental Working Team, which, in accordance with the established work priorities, formed the Bureau for Operational Coordination in February 2024, whose main task was to establish a maritime intelligence unit as an organizational unit of the Police Directorate, which is in line with international standards and which has further strengthened the intelligence and security sector's position within the international intelligence community.
"This Agreement represents a significant step forward when it comes to the unified operation of intelligence and security sector bodies and represents a very clear message of joint commitment and common strategic priorities with the aim of improving cooperation in the field of detecting criminal offenses related to drug smuggling, human smuggling, smuggling of weapons, ammunition and explosives, smuggling of excise goods, corruption, and related and all other forms of serious crimes, defined by the Criminal Code of Montenegro, which have a cross-border and international character.
"Finally, the Bureau for Operational Coordination pointed out that it owes special gratitude for the implementation of this very important activity to its partners from the UK Home Office - International Operations Department," the statement concluded.
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