Corruption Prevention in the

Estonia and International CooperationIndependence declared on 24.02.1918 and restored on 20.08.1991

Total area: 45 339 km² Population: 1 316 000Ethnic groups: 68.8% Estonians

25.1% Russians6.1% others

GDP per capita: 29,239 USD

International cooperation:Interpol - 1992Europol - 2002European Union and NATO - 2004Schengen - 2007Euro-zone - 2011

Police and Border Guard Board (PBGB)

PBGB started its work on 2010 when Police Board, Central CriminalPolice, Public Order Police, Border Guard Board, and Citizenship andMigration Board were merged.

By merging the agencies, all resources related to the ensuring ofinternal security – people, experience, funds and equipment werecombined under one management.

This way the field of internal security is developed as a whole and theexisting resources can be utilized in the most effective way.

Police and Border Guard Board (PBGB)

With 5000 employees PBGB is the biggest state agency in Estonia.

The main tasks of PBGB are:

Security and public order in the state

The securing of the external border of the European Union

The investigation and prevention of crimes and offences

The determination of citizenship and issuing of documents

PBGB is a police authority. All officers, regardless of their full titleor position, whether a border guard, a traffic police officer, aninvestigator or a pilot – are police officers.

PBGB`s budget for 2017 was 165 million euros.

Public Trust in PBGB

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POLICE PBGB

The Structure of PBGB

Internal Control Bureau

Internal Audit Bureau

Intelligence Management and Investigation Department

Centralised and sensitive investigations, operational information management.

Central Criminal Police, ImmigrationBureau, Aviation Group and the

Maritime Fleet.

Development Department

Centralised development and planning of all PBGB

services.

Planning, budgeting, analysing and international

cooperation.

Administration

Centralised department of

support services.

Logistics, personnel, translation, public relations and other support services.

4 Regional PrefecturesDirector General

Central Criminal Police

Prefectures - PBGB regional structural units

NORTH PREFECTURE1189 police officers10% of the area38% of population49% of crimes

WEST PREFECTURE442 police officers38% of the area18% of population12% of crimes

EAST PREFECTURE739 police officers16% of the area18% of population19% of crimes

SOUTH PREFECTURE877 police officers36% of the area26% of population20% of crimes

Estonia in total:1 340 000 inhabitants27 125 crimes (2018)

Internal Control Bureau

INTERNAL CONTROL BUREAU1st Division (6)2nd Division (16)3rd Division (7)

ICB WEST Division4 police officers

ICB EAST Division5 police officers

ICB SOUTH Division6 police officers

ICB annual statistics:

~ 40 disciplinary proceedings

~ 280 complaints, applications, formal notices

~ 70 Investigations on service related incidents

~ 70 criminal proceedings;

~ 30 proceeding of misdemeanours

~ 4000 background checks

Functions of ICB

• Preventing, combating and proceeding of

offences and disciplinary offences of officials

and employees;

• Performance of background checks;

• Monitoring of information processed by means

of information and communication technology

used at the PBGB

• Organisation of the establishment of rights to

access the IT systems

Reactive vs preventive approach to misconducts

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Ascertainment of circumstances

Motives,

Immanent cause

Values

Judicial and/or tactical

circumstances

Bill of indictment, punishment yes/no

Summary, conclusions, proposals

Incident, offence, misconduct

Aid, councelling,

assistance to officials

Review of procedures,

tactics, training.

Awareness raising

Why did it

happen?

What

happened?

How can

we prevent

it?

How do we

react?

Communication

PREVENTION

Reaction

Threat and risk assessment

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information &

intelligence

Annual action plan

Threat assessmentRisk assessment

of units

InvestigationsPreventive

measures

Control

activitiesMonitoring

Impact of

legislation

Econimical

influence

Impact of

organizational

matters

TechnologyHuman

capital

Identification of

possible

offences

Impact

Existing mitigation measures

Likelihood

- Targeted awareness

raising

- E-learning courses

- Guidance

- Communication

- On-site inspections

- Off-site inspections

- Service related checks

- Different algorithms

based on logfiles

- Network monitoring

- Data protection

- Ancillary activities

Gathering intelligence

Delitescent crime

Post factum investigations

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Thank you!