T15 Illicit Laboratory Dismantling - advanced

21/2019
PARTICIPANT - PROFILE CEPOL in cooperation with Europol, supported
by Polish Central Forensic Laboratory of the
Police

13 – 24 May 2019
Police Training Centre, Legionowo/Education
Centre, Jachranka (Poland)

Thank you for your interest to participate upcoming CEPOL Activity.

The activity targets law enforcement officers, including customs officials and forensic experts
directly involved in investigation and dismantling of illicit drug production laboratories,
predominantly synthetic drug facilities. In order to ensure a coherent group for the event, you
are kindly asked to provide more details about your professional profile. Therefore, you are
kindly asked to complete the following questions (note. max 250 words for each question):

First name: Dragan Last name: Antulov

Title/Rank/Func Senior police
Country: Croatia
tion: inspector
My current area of expertise is investigation and evidence
gathering regarding illicit production and drug distribution. I
1. What is your current area work on a daily basis with confidential informants gathering
intelligence that are vital in my field of work. Prevention of
of expertise?
illegal substances production and drugs abuse are another
part of my work, as well as prevention of illicit substances
smuggling. In my work I encounter with different type of drugs,
mostly amphetamine, MDMA and heroin.
2. For how long have you I have been a police officer for eighteen years now, but I have
been working in the area been working in the narcotics department for five years. I
started as a police inspector, and two years ago I became a
of investigation and/or
senior police inspector. For the past five years, since I started
dismantling of illicit drug working in the narcotics department, my work is focused only
production laboratories? on felonies related to drug abuse and illicit substances
production, as well as on smuggling prevention of illicit
substances.
As illicit drug abuse, production and distribution is the centre
of my work, I believe participating in this activity will give me
new insights regarding my field of work. Drug related illegal
activities do not maintain within the country borders, they are
international, which is why communal training and
3. Why are you interested in
discussions on various matters with participants from other
this activity? countries can very well help obtain new knowledge and
information I could use in my future work. According to the
itinerary this training is very detailed and comprehensive, it
includes practical exercises, and it is an excellent opportunity
for an inspector who fights drug abuse and production every
day.

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4. Please, indicate your
level of English by self-
assessing your skills
according to CEFR at
C1 in listening, reading, spoken interaction and spoken
https://europass.cedefop. production, and B2 In writing
europa.eu/en/resources/e
uropean-language-levels-
cefr

Please notice that the deadline to return the completed form is 15 March 2019 to:
Activity Manager Klaidas Kuchalskis, klaidas.kuchalskis@cepol.europa.eu.

Pre-conditions for participant applications

 Participants should not have attended this or a similar CEPOL/Europol training course
before. Nevertheless, it would be useful to go through the CEPOL on-line module on
synthetic drugs in advance before 2-week training. The needed details you can obtain
on CEPOL website following www.cepol.europa.eu after registration as a user.
 Law enforcement participants should have basic experience in synthetic drug and
precursor investigations, including possible crime scenes and the dismantling of
synthetic drug production facilities.
 Forensic scientist participants should have basic experience in dealing with chemicals
and synthetic drug-related issues, including crime scenes and the dismantling of
synthetic drug production facilities. Since the course will deal with some classified
material, they must belong to a national police/governmental organisation, e.g. State
Forensic Laboratory.
 As the course will be conducted in English, participants must have good written and
verbal communication skills in this language, including relevant technical and/or
chemical terminology.
 Participants should be prepared to present their country situation on synthetic drugs
production/trafficking.
 Participants must be in good physical condition and this course is not suitable for
pregnant women considering the fact that participants have to work with possible
dangerous substances.

All personal data collected by the Agency are processed in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EC) N° 45/2001 of the European Parliament
and of the Council of 18 December 2000 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions
and bodies and on the free movement of such data.
Privacy Statement is available on the CEPOL public website under ‘Education and Training’.

ISO 9001:2015 © CEPOL 2018. Proprietary document. Printed copies are not controlled.
Certified Management System for Confirm revision status.
CEPOL Residential Activities

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