Europol launches the European Centre Against Migrant Smuggling to disrupt tech-enabled smuggling networks using intelligence, OSINT, and financial investigations to dismantle criminal operations

The new centre strengthens intelligence-led policing by combining OSINT, advanced analytics, and financial investigations to map criminal networks, identify high-value targets, and dismantle entire smuggling operations rather than individual cases. It will also focus...

OSCE hosts the 26th Alliance against Trafficking in Persons on 20–21 April 2026 to fight forced criminality, protect victims, and combat exploitation in drugs, theft, migrant smuggling, and cybercrime

The event will bring together national authorities, law enforcement, international organisations, and civil society to discuss strategies for early victim identification, protection measures, and the application of the non-punishment principle to ensure victims...