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According to Europol and the EMCDDA, drug-related violence and criminal adaptability are on the rise, posing important challenges for law enforcement. One pioneering EU-funded project takes on drug smugglers with new technologies enabling police and customs to detect illicit drugs with 99% accuracy.

It has been one year since the Schengen Information System was upgraded with new categories of alerts, including biometrics and additional tools to combat serious crime and terrorism. Find out how dozens of terrorist suspects are caught every year thanks to SIS.

In her overview of the work accomplished over the last five years, President von der Leyen discusses the recently agreed upon Pact on Migration and Asylum, a common EU response to manage migration, and the EU Security Union Strategy 2020-2025, a holistic approach adopted to keep Europe safe.

Commissioner for Home Affairs and Migration, Ylva Johansson, was in Australia this week, from 18 to 21 March, to strengthen the ongoing EU-Australia collaboration on security matters. She met with Australia's Minister for Home Affairs, with the eSafety Commissioner, and the Attorney General.

RAN Practitioners is organising a small-scale expert session to explore the relationship between citizens’ attitudes towards migration and what that means for preventing radicalisation leading to violent extremism and terrorism.

The EMN’s latest inform analyses the emerging adoption of digital identity documents and residence permits to third country nationals throughout EMN Member and Observer Countries, offering enhanced security and efficiency.

We are pleased to invite you to the RAN Practitioners Webinar on ‘New technologies and P/CVE: threats and opportunities’, which will take place on 9 April 2024 from 14.30 to 16.00 (CEST).

Working with radicalised individuals requires communication in order to gain trust and to work on ideological and/or behavioural change. Achieving this can be a challenging and time-consuming process. Their firm black and white world view makes it difficult to hold exchanges.

In this edition of the RAN Practitioners Update we therefore feature some of the latest RAN Practitioners products which take a look at the important issue of mental health, both of the need to support the mental health of practitioners and of the need to address mental health issues in P/CVE.