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The Center for the Study of Democracy's efforts to
assess the development of trans-border crime and related corruption
as well as the link between corruption and illegal trafficking made
a major contribution in countering corruption in Bulgaria. In 2000
CSD developed the "Trafficking and Corruption Monitoring and
Prevention" report as a public-private partnership of
state institutions and non-governmental organizations. An update of
this report for the period 2001-2002 was published in November
2002.
CSD made public the results of its expertise in
assessing the impact of the trans-border organized crime on
corruption within security forces at a number of international
events, among them two international conferences, jointly organized
by the Center for the Study of Democracy and the George C. Marshall
European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen,
Germany. The first one, "Corruption within Security Forces: a Threat to National
Security" was held in May 2001 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
and CSD facilitated the input from the Bulgarian government and
NGOs in its development and implementation. The regional conference
"Institutionalizing the Prevention of Corruption in
Security Forces: Enhancing Preventive Structures", held
in March 2002 in Sofia, Bulgaria, was a 4-day event which brought
together 43 senior representatives from nine SEE countries to
discuss their roles in building character and leadership within
security forces and improving the cooperation between them both
internally and externally.
The public-private partnership format under which
they were implemented has been particularly appropriate as they
have allowed participants to work towards the development of
integrated responses to corruption. The same format is being
applied in the current process of building a capacity of the law
enforcement agencies in Bulgaria to address new security threats
and to counter corruption within the security forces.
As a follow up to this work, CSD is currently working on capacity
building for the Bulgarian security forces in their anti-corruption
mandate. The project is supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and includes cooperation with the Academy of the Ministry of the Interior and
the Military Academy on an anti-corruption
training course for both institutions. The objective is to enhance
the capacity of the academies to deliver anti-corruption content to
their trainees and thus support the long term ability of the
Bulgarian security forces to counteract corruption. The pilot
effort includes a course of anti-corruption lectures and the
development of a training resource manual.
On 17 October 2002 a Memorandum of Understanding was
signed between the Center for the Study of Democracy and the
Military Academy. The MoU outlines the scope of the cooperation
between the CSD and the Academy, and in particular the contribution
that the CSD will make to enhancing the Academy’s capacity to
provide anti-corruption training. The MoU was signed at an official
ceremony at the Military Academy in the presence of General Atanas
Zapryanov, Rector of the Military Academy, Dr. Ognian Shentov,
Chairman of CSD, H.E. Rolf Baltzersen, Ambassador of Norway,
Ambassador Boyko Noev, former Minister of Defense and Director of
the European Program at CSD and others.
See also:
Training
Equipment Donated to the Academy of the Ministry of
Interior
Contents of the anti-corruption manual (in
Bulgarian only)
Summaries of
the anti-corruption lectures (in Bulgarian
only)
Links to law enforcement and security agencies in
Bulgaria:
Ministry of Interior of Republic of Bulgaria
Academy of Ministry of Interior
Specialized agencies of the Ministry of Interior
Ministry of Defense of Republic of
Bulgaria
Military Academy "G. S. Rakovski"
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