Programme 2012

Tuesday, 14 February 2012

08:00 Opening of the Exhibition

08:20 Welcome notes to the 15th European Police Congress: R. Uwe PROLL, Editor in Chief, Behörden Spiegel, Bonn/Berlin

08:30 Terrorism – a challenge for a constitutional democracy: Sabine LEUTHEUSSER-SCHNARRENBERGER, Federal Minister of Justice, Berlin

09:00 Networking as an efficient strategy for Homeland Security: Dr. Sándor PINTÉR, Minister of Interior, Hungary, Budapest

09:30 INTERPOL’s Counter-terrorism strategy: Bernd ROSSBACH, Acting Executive Director for Police Services, INTERPOL, France, Lyon

10:00 Platin-Sponsor

10:30 Kaffee-Pause

11:00 Panel I-VIII

12:30 Lunch

13:30 The EU Internal Security Strategy: Joaquim NUNES DE ALMEIDA, Head of Unit Police co-operation and access to information, Directorate Internal Security, Directorate-General Home Affairs, European Commission, Brussels

14:00 You protect us – we protect you protective equipment for operations and training: Philipp KRAFT, 3M Deutschland GmbH

14:30 EUROPOL as the central platform for the analysis in fighting terrorism and Organised Crime: Michel QUILLÉ, Deputy-Director and Head of Europol's Operations Department, Europol, The Netherlands, The Hague

15:00 Coffee Break

16:00 Safe City - Beyond Policing: Prof. Dr. Lutz HEUSER, CTO AGT International and CEO AGT Germany

16:30 Discussion on terrorism and radicalised lone perpetrators

Chairman: Dr. August HANNING, President of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) ret., State Secretary ret. and Programme & Editor Board of the Behörden Spiegel, Germany, Berlin

• Heinz FROMM, President, Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany, Cologne
• Peter GRIDLING, Director, Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and counter-terrorism (BVT), Austria, Vienna
• Dr. Magnus RANSTORP, Research Director, Center for Asymetric Threat Studies (CATS), Swedish National Defence College, Stockholm
• Stine BERNER, Director Analysis, Danish Security Intelligence Service (PET), Kopenhagen
• Jon FITJE, Director, Department of Analysis, Police Security Service (PST), Norway, Oslo

18:00 Best practice: Experiences from multinational operations against cyber-crime: LIN De-Hua, Commissioner, Criminal Investigation Bureau, Taiwan, Taipeh

18:30 Terrorism in North Africa – an analysis. Threat for Europe?: Uwe KRANZ, Consultant, previously EUROPOL, Germany, Obernzell

19:00 Reception

08:00 Opening of the Exhibition

08:20 Continuation of the Conference

08:30 EU policy 10 years past 9/11 - challenges and achievements: Gilles de KERCHOVE, EU Counter-terrorism coordinator, Council of the European Union, Belgium, Brussels

09:00 The federal security architecture on Homeland Security – the German Federal Police as a pillar: Matthias SEEGER, President, German Federal Police, Potsdam

09:30 Managing the conflicting requirements of human factors and protection: Gerd HEXELS, CEO, Blücher Systems, Germany, Nettetal

10:00 Frontex: latest developments, competencies & possibilities: Gil ARIAS, Deputy Executive Director, Frontex, Poland, Warsaw

10:30 N.N., Panasonic

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Digital Vulnerability – the Internet as a critical infrastructure: Clemens BINNINGER, MoP, CDU, Member of the home affairs select committee of the Bundestag, Germany, Berlin

12:00 Panoramic Cameras for Discreet Monitoring of an Entire Room: Dr. Ralf HINKEL, Chairman of the Board, Mobotix AG, Germany, Langmeil

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Panel IX-XVI

15:00 The UN global Counter-terrorism strategy: a common approach: Richard BARRETT, Coordinator, Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team of the UN Security Council’s Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee, UN, USA, New York

15:30 Telekom CERT Threat Radar: Dr. Bernd Eßer, Leiter Telekom CERT, Deutsche Telekom AG

16:00 DISCUSSION OF THE MINISTERS OF THE INTERIOR/SENATORS OF THE INTERIOR

Chairman: R. Uwe PROLL, Editor in Chief, Behörden Spiegel, Bonn/Berlin

• Lorenz CAFFIER, CDU, Minister of the Interior, Mecklenburg-Hither Pomerania, Schwerin
• Frank HENKEL, CDU, Senator for the Interior and Sport, Berlin
• Joachim HERMANN, CSU, Bavarian state Minister of the Interior, Munich
• Uwe SCHÜNEMANN, CDU, Minister for the Interior, Sport and Integration, Lower Saxony, Hannover
• Holger STAHLKNECHT, CDU, Minister for the Interior, Saxony-Anhalt, Magdeburg
• Dr. Dietmar WOIDKE, SPD, Minister of the Interior, Brandenburg, Potsdam

17:30 Resumé and Perspective: R. Uwe PROLL, Editor in Chief, Behörden Spiegel, Bonn/Berlin

Conference Chairman: Brigadier General (ret.) Reimar Scherz, Behörden Spiegel, Bonn

*to be confirmed