Integrated Border Management in Turkey

NUSRET GUCLU, Non-Governmental Expertnusretguclu@gmail.com, guclu@ii.metu.edu.tr

SENOL ARSLAN, Director, Project Implementation Directorate of Integrated Border Managementsenars@gmail.com, senol.arslan@icisleri.gov.tr

Principles and Overview of the Technology Architecture

The Second IEEE International Conference on

Technologies for Homeland Security and Safety

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Background

�Support for the Development of an Action Plan to Implement Turkey’s Integrated Border Management Strategy

�TWINNING PROJECT: TR 02-JH-02�PROJECT NUMBER: TR0204.01�Candidate Country: TurkeyLead Member State: FranceAssociated Member State: United Kingdom

�Action Plan Approved By : 27 MARCH, R: TayyipErdogan, the Prime Minister

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Related Projects

� TR2004/IB/JH/04 Twinning Project for the Development of a Training System for Border Police

� TR 03 JH 05 Twinning Project on Visa Policy and Practice� TR 02 JH 03 Asylum-Migration Twinning Project� TR 03 JH 03 Twinning Project for Strengthening Institutions in the Fight

Against Trafficking in Human Beings� TR 0301.01 Strengthening the accountability, efficiency and effectiveness

of the Turkish National Police� TR 0404.03 Enhancement of the professionalism of the Turkish

Gendarmerie:� TR 0304.04 Visa system - Visa policy and practice:� TR 0403.01 Customs modernization� TR 0304.03 Money Laundering, Financial Sources of Crime and the

Financing of Terrorism� TR 0304.01 Strengthening the Police Forensic Capacity:� ....

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Principles

� Checking and surveillance� Coverage for humans, animals, vehicles and objects� A single architecture and related common standards� National experience + international better practices� Knowledge management, information sharing, and intelligent analysis� Human and infrastructural capacity building� Centrally managed operations and technology� Technical cooperation between agencies� Equipment sharing protocols� Categorization and prioritization (based on risk analysis)� Parallel pilot projects� Multi-year investment planning

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Main & Prioritized Activities - Timeline

2006 2007 2009 2014

Legislative arrangements[2006–2009]

Feasibility study [2006–2007]

Transfer of duties and powers [2014- ]

Systems, infrastructure and staffing [2007–2014]

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Requirements

� Infrastructural needs for Border surveillance: Land borders, Seaborders; Air borders

� Infrastructural needs for Border control: Border gates; Fixed checkpoints; Mobile check points

� Management Systems Supported by Centralized IT� Institutional Infrastructure Systems

⌧HR⌧Security, Authentication and Access⌧Data Fusion, BI⌧Secure External Gateway to Border Management Services⌧Communications Infrastructure

� Inter-Institutional Integrated Information Systems⌧Inter-Institutional Information Exchange Data Bus⌧.......

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Positional View – Turkish Border Security

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General Architectural View

�Infrastructure and management

�Common service components

�Core business components

�Support components

�Front end components

�Process and data integration

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Technology Picture

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Some key technology componentsSome key technology components

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The First Project - Assessment

� Legislative, organizational and procedural framework� IT Governance organization� Needs assessment� System architecture and information model, interoperability standards, authentication and access control requirements, interface definitions, integration bus requirements and specification, key communication flows and message exchange formats, GIS data exchange standards, biometric data exchange standards

� Risk analysis, security policy� Operational process standards� Pilots for gates and surveillance areas� Institutional structure (ref “Training System”)

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Means

1. TA : establishment of legal and institutional framework

2. TA : Further detailing the Action Plan (road map)

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Key Issues Summarized

�Unified solution, system and informationarchitecture

�Governance

�Change management

�Cultural (personal, organizational) barriers

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Thanks for your attention !