World BORDERPOL Congress Prelim Congress Prog

Congress Programme
THURsday 11 th DECEMBER
9:00am - 10:30am
Plenary Session - Improving and facilitating the legitimate
movement of people and goods: what technologies and
standards are missing?
Chair: Vasan Seshadri, Asian Secretariat, BORDERPOL, India
Security versus Facilitation - Crossing the border now takes longer
and is more complex than it was 50 years ago. Is technology actually
making border procedures more efficient or just making the process
more expensive for everyone? Since very few actual terrorists have
been interdicted by national border control organizations at the borders
where to go forward with border security/traveler screening? What are
the latest technologies and future technological developments that can
enhance clearance and mobility, from the fast moving business traveller
or the legitimate refugee to legitimate goods and traffic?
Ioan Buda, Director General, Romanian Border Police
The Impact of ICT on coordinated Border Management in East and
Southern Africa (ESA)
Cephas Makunike, Zimbabwe Revenue Authority
David Scowsill, President & CEO, World Travel & Tourism Council, UK
Ms Angiolelli-Mayer, Project Manager Passenger Facilitation, IATA,
Switzerland
11:15am - 12:30pm
Workshops
Closed Agency Workshop - Inter-
Agency Co-operation and Information
Sharing - Why the return to
information silo’s and how to tackle
systemic non-cooperation practices
Chair: Hungarian National Police Border
Police Department
After the revelations of allies spying on
allies, the WikiLeaks scandals of 2013 it can
be reliably assumed that varying degrees
of intergovernmental and interagency trust
has been eroded. With this in mind Is it
possible to get early warnings of emerging
events around the world? Should a body like
BORDERPOL provide forecasts of future
societal and economic events that impact on
the border security community? With so much
information already available how to separate
the wheat from the chaff? The need to repair
this is necessary if likeminded bodies are to
work together in the future.
Breakout Session - Should exit
controls be reintroduced universally?
If so, how do we best share the
necessary information across multiple
agencies and stakeholders?
Chair: Ken Richardson, Operations
Director, BORDERPOL, UK
With today’s ease of on-line booking and
check-in, which can be accomplished by
anyone in any country, passports rarely get
checked or seen until the passenger boards
the plane/vessel. Although baggage security
checks may be conducted on exit, many
current exit control procedures do not verify
the legitimacy of the traveller with the passport
document. Are we absolutely certain that all
travellers through the gates are who they say
they are? Should exit controls be universally
introduced, regardless of the cost, to mitigate
traveller fraud identity? ICAO mandated Face
as the biometric to be included in all eTravel
Documents, verified using the PKI Registry, so
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