Southeast European Law Enforcement Center (SELEC) Anti-Terrorism Task Force
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Southeast European Law Enforcement Center (SELEC) Anti-Terrorism Task Force
AKA
Southeast European Law Enforcement Center for Trans-Border Crime
Abbreviation
SELEC
Summary
The primary objective of Southeast European Law Enforcement Center (SELEC) is to “provide support for Member States and enhance coordination in preventing and combating crime, including serious and organized crime, where such crime involves or appears to involve an element of trans-border activity.” The Anti-Terrorism Task Force of the Southeast European Law Enforcement Center conducts workshops and hosts meetings, often in coordination with UN counterterrorism bodies, to enhance coordination among member states in combating terrorism. According to the SELEC website, “The Joint Cooperation Committee, the highest decision body of SECI Center, immediately recognized [after the terrorist attack of Sept. 11, 2001] that the usual way of fighting terrorism was not sufficient and effective. There is a need for a new approach for combating terrorism and it is expressed in a declaration and a resolution that identify the related issues of the SECI Center region. The Bucharest Declaration on the Suppression of Terrorism and the Resolution on assistance to the Investigative process related to the terrorist attack in the USA, September 11, 2001 underlined the awareness of the growing concern caused by the increase of the number of terrorists attacks.” The Turkish National Police coordinate the Task Force.
Members
Members of the SELEC include Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Greece, Hungary, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, and Turkey.