Initial meeting of the Bilateral Initiative
On October 2nd, 2020 an initial bilateral meeting was held at the Galaxie Hotel in Prague as part of the Bilateral Initiative "Sharing Good Practice in State Police Cooperation with Local Authorities".
The aim of this meeting was to determine and divide tasks for individual stakeholders during the implementation period, especially the approval of dates and topics of individual workshops, the method of their organization and time frame, selection of presenting experts, design of future presentation of outputs and mutual communication. Representatives of the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities (Kommunesektorens organisasjon) participated in a video conference on behalf of the Norwegian partner, the Czech side was represented by the Department of Financial Mechanisms and Structural Funds of the Ministry of the Interior, the Department of Security Policy of the Ministry of the Interior, the Union of Towns and Municipalities of the Czech Republic and the Police Presidium. All participants described the working meeting as successful and very beneficial.