European Confederation of Police

The European Confederation of Police ( EuroCOP ) is the umbrella organization of European trade unions of the various police forces in the European Union. She went on 31 October 2002 out of the existing 1953 International Union of Syndicates de Police ( UISP ) to allow other professional organizations, particularly in the UK, to join. The Federation has its headquarters in Luxembourg.

EuroCOP represents 35 police unions from 27 European countries (as of 2012) in the EU institutions in matters of domestic and legal policy, and thus represents a total of approximately 600,000 police personnel in Europe.

" Police threads started by Europol to the plans for a European border police are far too important to be left to politicians alone it ," commented the GdP chairman Konrad Freiberg at the founding congress in 2002 in Roskilde near the Danish capital Copenhagen.

EuroCOP should not be confused with the concept of a " Euro - Cops" (Europol investigator, the police executive powers to receive and abroad - see Interpol)

The Chairman is the Chief Superintendent German Heinz Kiefer, for 35 years in the police service and a board member of the German police union (GdP ), by far the largest member organization.

Objectives

• Increasing the efficiency of the police service under democratic control;
• Establishment of standards for the qualification of police personnel;
• Preventing the privatization of police functions;

One of the current concerns of EuroCOP, documented in the press release of 19 April 2006, is the demand of the Spanish Government to honor its election pledge and the Guardia Civil at last actually to demilitarize. A similar meeting at board level took place in Madrid on April 21.