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EU: Forgery course

01 November 1992

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In August and September, police and immigration officers from all member states came together in Brussels and Eindhoven for a 12- day course on the detection of forged documents. The European Commission funded the course organised by the Belgian Gendarmerie and the Dutch National Criminal Intelligence Service (CRI), with the collaboration of the UK Immigration service.

The need for such a course has been brought about largely by member states' own punitive policies on asylum-seekers. No country issues visas to refugees, but since 1987, asylum-seekers from most refugee-producing countries need visas to travel; and the fines airlines receive for carrying passengers with no documents or with forged ones means that immigration control starts at the airline desk. Thus, the creation of ever better forged documents for people desperate to get out of their countries has become big business in the past five years.

Migration Newssheet October 1992; Agence Europe 9.9.92.

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