Police

Turkey
Ankara consults Paris over smugglers' speed boats

The French police earlier this month received a delegation from Turkey's Sahil Güvenlik Komutanlıgı coastguard, a military body under the interior ministry, Intelligence Online has learnt.

The Agencies' Gazette
Norway and geopolitical analysis, Russia honours Kurdish spy, Keeping tabs on Vietnamese diaspora

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

NorwayPolice looking for geopolitical analysis provider

Kurdistan/RussiaOrder of friendship for Kurdish spy cited in US lawsuit

VietnamHanoi's version of United Front Department

China, Thailand, United States
US deepens South-East Asia police partnerships to keep up with China

US law enforcement agencies are stepping up their cooperation efforts in the fight against transnational crime in South-East Asia in order to avoid becoming reliant on Chinese intelligence.

France
French national police chief appoints new chief of staff

French National Police (DGPN) Director General Louis Laugier has appointed a new chief of staff.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
French business association CDSE, French judicial police

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

ParisPrestigious CDSE business association chiefs put pen to paper

ParisSenior police executive goes private

France
French police and Interpol marked by high-level command shuffle

The Director General of the French National Police, Louis Laugier, is looking for a new chief of staff following the appointment of Vincent Le Beguec as head of the DNPAF national border police directorate.

France
Transfers on the way in French police services

Intelligence Online has learned Valérie Minne is leaving her position as head of France's DNPAF national border police agency.

Yemen
Inside the neighbourhood secrets of Houthi intelligence

Intelligence Online has seen confidential documents from the Houthi interior ministry revealing a policing network set up in areas under the group's control and the extent of fears of infiltration by Mossad and CIA moles.

France
France to create dedicated criminal intelligence database

France is over the next few weeks to create a dedicated database for criminal intelligence equivalent to the Cristina directory used for counter-intelligence and terrorism cases. The proposal is currently before the interior ministry's legal affairs department.