On 24—25 February 2019 the meeting within the framework of PL/2017/PR/008 project: “Building of a central information system on files related to criminal activity” took place in the Europol headquarters in Haque. The meeting was attended by: Col. Krzysztof Borkowski PhD, Deputy Director of the Central Forensic Laboratory of the Police, lt. Anna Przewor, Head of Document Examination and Audiovisual Techniques Department of CFLP as well as Artur Bujak and Marzena Holak.

XXVII meeting of European Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice – eu-LISA EURODAC Advisory Group took place on 6 December 2018 in Tallinn, Estonia. The meeting was attended by participants from the European Union member countries, the European Commission and eu-LISA Agency. Poland was represented by Małgorzata Walecka, expert in Fingerprint Examination Department of CFLP.

XI International Symposium of Forensic Experts of Border Services took place on 4—5 December 2018 and was organized by Border Guard Training Center in Kętrzyn.

10th EDEWG (European Document Experts Working Group) Conference, organized by ENFSI in cooperation with Portuguese Forensic Laboratory of the Police, took place on 13—16 November in Lisbon.

InSec 2018 International Exhibition and Conference on Border Security and Internal Security, under the honorary patronage of Minister of Interior and Administration, took place on 15—16 November 2018 in Warsaw. CFLP was represented by lt. dr eng. Michał Borusiński, lt. col. Edyta Kot, Małgorzata Walecka and dr Kamil Januszkiewicz.

The Conference of Heads of EUROPOL National Units (HENU) took place on 13—14 November 2018 in Hague. During this conference col. dr Krzysztof Borkowski, Deputy Director CFLP, maj. Wojciech Ceglarski, senior research and technical expert in Toolmark and Ballistic Department CFLP and Marcin Tęgos from Communications and IT Department, The Police Head Office, have presented the option of including FAVI (Forensic Aid in Vehicle Identification) into EUROPOL.

“Train the Technical Trainers – SIS II, VIS, Eurodac – IT Operators” training, organized by European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL) and European Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (eu-LISA) took place on 8—9 November 2018 in Tallinn (Estonia).

Joint training on disaster victims identification (DVI), organized by the Maltese police, under the aegis of European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL), took place between 29th October and 2nd November 2018 on Malta. Central Forensic Laboratory of The Police was represented by: lt.col. Piotr Trojanowski – Crime Scene Officers Manager and Agnieszka Łukomska – adviser in the Scientific Development Department.

The conference summarizing the three-year Polish-Czech flagship project “Drugstop – transboundary police units cooperation in the field of fight against drug crime”, with the participation of Director of Central Forensic Laboratory of the Police, col. Radosław Juźwiak PhD, took place on 17th October 2018 in Wałbrzych.

International conference “Current problems of judicial research in the field of forensic examination” took place on 10–11 October 2018 in Kharkov (Ukraine). The Polish side was represented by: prof. dr hab. Leszek Wieczorek, Director of Institute of Forensic Research in Krakow, col. Krzysztof Borkowski PhD, deputy director of CFLP, lt. Michał Borusiński PhD, Head of Toolmark and Ballistics Department CFLP and experts on toolmark examinations: maj. Wojciech Ceglarski and Krzyszof Biskup.