27 August 2021
As part of its Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Slovenia is organising an international conference of police and other experts on one of the thematic priorities of the Presidency – missing persons, in particular missing children.
The conference will be held under the auspices of the Police Expert Network on Missing Persons, which was officially recognised by the Council’s Law Enforcement Working Party, and in cooperation with AMBER Alert Europe. The international conference, which will address one of the most complex areas of policing, will take place in Ljubljana, on 1 and 2 September 2021.
The conference, which will begin with opening addresses by the Minister of the Interior and President of the Home Affairs Council, Aleš Hojs, the President of the Police Expert Network on Missing Persons and Head of the Homicide and Sexual Offences Section of the Slovenian Police, Damjan Miklič, and Frank Hoen, Founder and Chairman of AMBER Alert Europe, will feature presentations by distinguished speakers, providing an opportunity to reflect on and evaluate past work and explore current and future courses of action in dealing with missing persons. They will address various operational and other aspects of the search for missing persons, while the long-term goal in this field remains achieving a common European approach to dealing with missing persons, especially missing children.
In addition to police experts from over twenty European countries, the conference will bring together representatives of Interpol, Europol, Frontex and Cepol, the Bavarian Police, the Police Academy of Zagreb, and Lower Saxony in Germany. Also present will be representatives of the Supreme State Prosecutor’s Office and local organisations such as the Tom Telefon helpline, the Alpine Association of Slovenia, Unicef, Ključ, as well as representatives of Österreich findet euch and Locate International.
The conference will be held at Hotel Lev, Vošnjakova 1, Ljubljana.
Programme for the media
- 9:00 Opening addresses.
- 9:40 Statements by Aleš Hojs, Minister of the Interior and President of the Home Affairs Council, Damjan Miklič, President of the Police Expert Network on Missing Persons and Head of the Homicide and Sexual Offences Section of the Slovenian Police, and Frank Hoen, Founder and Chairman of AMBER Alert Europe, which will take place at the Karantanija Hall in Hotel Lev.
A press release will be issued after the conference.
Please note that access to the event is only possible with accreditation. You can apply for this event by 10 a.m., Tuesday, 31 August 2021, through the link: Accreditation center.