Joint strategy to target cross-border criminal groups, arrest wanted individuals and fight cybercrime and illegal trafficking.
Following an official visit to Italy, Director General of the State Police, Chief Superintendent Skender Hita, held another important meeting aimed at strengthening and deepening cooperation between the police structures of the two countries, with a focus on combating organized crime and criminal groups operating in Italy and Albania.
Chief Superintendent Skender Hita and the accompanying delegation were received at a special meeting at the Central Directorate of Criminal Police by the Deputy Director General for Public Security, who is also the Central Director of Criminal Police, Prefect Raffaele Grassi, as well as by the Director of the Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate (DIA), General Nicola Massimo Masciulli.
Also present at the meeting were the Central Director of Anti-Drug Services, Lorena Di Galante, the Director of the Service for International Police Cooperation, Lorenzo Bucossi, and the Director of the Central Operational Police Service (SCO), Senior Chief Marco Calì.
The discussions focused on intensifying joint investigative and operational actions to identify, document and target criminal groups operating in both countries, fighting drug trafficking, illegal trafficking, cybercrime and other forms of cross-border crime.
Particular attention was paid to real-time exchange of police information and intelligence, coordination of joint operations, targeting the financial resources of criminal groups, and intensifying efforts to locate and arrest individuals wanted by Albanian and Italian justice.
Director General Hita assured the head of the Criminal Police and that of the Anti-Mafia Directorate of his and the Albanian Police’s determination to further deepen this cooperation by increasing the number and capacities of joint investigative teams, with the aim of conducting more in-depth investigations and carrying out coordinated operations to target criminal structures across their full reach, regardless of state borders.
Prefect Grassi and General Masciulli praised the work carried out by the Department of Criminal Police and the Directorate of the Special Operational Force, as well as the excellent cooperation with the Interforce at the Italian Embassy in Albania. They expressed their commitment to raising this cooperation to an even higher level through the drafting of a new strategy, aimed at achieving concrete results in the fight against organized crime and all forms of cross-border crime.