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in the cooperation between law enforcement authorities of the countries.
The focus of Interpol activities was to advance the Interpol 2020 plan, the purpose of which is to bring operations and nances closer togeth- er so that the nances of the organisation can be balanced and ameliorated.
The rules of the Commission for the Control of Interpol’s Files, important to Interpol's operations, were reformed. The commission is responsible for taking the data protection regulations into account, and it also processes matters and complaints concerning individ- ual Interpol alerts. The CCF makes binding decisions on rectifying or deleting information entered by Member States in Interpol’s infor- mation systems. The Finnish representative was chosen as a member of the commission in November 2016.
THE STRATEGY FOR INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS OF THE POLICE DETERMINES THE CONCRETE ACTIONS The Strategy for international operations of the police for 2016–2020 will reinforce the pre- conditions for international cooperation, and its implementation plan will determine the concrete actions. The implementation work of the strategy began in 2016.
The objective set for 2016 to assign 20 Finnish police experts to UN operations (19 second- ed and one member of contract staff) was achieved.
The objective envisioned for 2017 to increase Finnish police participation in the UN to thirty will be achieved in the rst half of 2017, as things currently stand as there are nine sec- onded police experts selected for operations waiting for posting, with three candidates. The
Joint operations of the police, Customs and the Finnish Border Guard in the Port of Helsinki.
operations include UNSOM, UNMIL, MINUS- MA, MONUSCO, UNMIK and UNMISS.
In addition to the EU and UN assignments, there are also Finnish police of cers per- forming civilian crisis management duties in Afghanistan, Kosovo, the Palestinian territories and Ukraine, as well as in Italy.
Nordic cooperation has continued to be close, including training cooperation and the plan- ning of joint projects.
A model of career steps on international assignments and guidelines on staff participa- tion in international assignments have been prepared as part of the working age pro- gramme of the police. n
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