(23.01.) European police forces have agreed a six year plan for cooperation on technology and for the next two years will focus on projects examining Automatic Number Plate Recognition, open source and signals intelligence, video surveillance and the remote stopping of vehicles.

The plans are contained in a work programme [1] drawn up by the European Network of Law Enforcement Technology Services (ENLETS), a sub-group of the Council‘s Law Enforcement Working Party. According to a presentation given by the Dutch official responsible for coordinating ENLETS, 26 Member States participate. [2]

The group was formed in 2008 and in 2012 declared that it had found a „mission“ – to „support front line policing and the fight against serious and organised crime by gathering user requirements, scanning and raising awareness of new technology and best practices, benchmarking and giving advice“.