The PEN-MP (Police Expert Network on Missing Persons) is the European police network to which police experts from over 34 EU and non-EU countries are connected and where expertise of investigations on missing persons is shared. The Dutch Police will hold presidency for three years (2023, 2024 & 2025) of this expertise network.
Read moreOur mission is to strengthen cross-border cooperation between the Member States including Schengen associated countries by facilitating the exchange of knowledge, expertise and other non-operational information on investigating missing persons. Because together we search, investigate and identify; “Together we care”
Under the Dutch EU presidency (2016), the Minister of Security and Justice proposed the establishment of a European police expert network for missing persons.
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Under the Slovenian EU presidency, the Council conclusions were adopted in December 2021 in the context of cross-border police cooperation in the field of missing persons.
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In January 2022, the PEN-MP Core Group adopted the definition of a missing person.
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The statute of the PEN-MP defines relations, rights and obligations between the members en observers of the expert network.
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The Core-group contains the following countries: Czech Republic, France, Germany, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and The Netherlands.
The other participating members are: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia.
Besides the participating members the Pen-MP also includes observers from various law enforcement agencies like: National Crime agency (UK), National Police Chiefs Council (UK), New South Wales Police Force ( Australia), Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Canada), Kosovo Police, Europol, Interpol and Frontex.
An important aspect of PEN-MP’s mission is to promote cooperation and the sharing of information between different countries and agencies. The network aims to share best practices and promote a unified approach in investigating missing persons cases and actions in “live” international child abduction. This is achieved by organizing conferences, workshops and training sessions where key issues are discussed and experiences are shared. Read more about our projects
PEN-MP congres
In December 2024 the second annual conference of the PEN-MP will be organized. This year the theme will be “Together we investigate”.This is the second…
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Crime knows no borders, thought the founders of Interpol a hundred years ago. In fighting it, sharing knowledge and information between countries is indispensable. In…
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PEN-MP congres
From 6th until the 8th of December the Annual International Conference of the Police Expert Network on Missing Persons wil be held in The Netherlands.…
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