LEmobAB · Law Enforcement mobilities Across Borders

Law Enforcement mobilities Across Borders

The MSCA post-doctoral fellowship project Law Enforcement mobilities Across Borders (LEmobAB) investigates the interdependency between localized policing-practices across border-regions and European legal-political practices in the field of police cooperation and interrogates the ways that policing contributes to shaping the European space. The study concentrates on so-called “operational police cooperation” which refers to measures such as cross-border hot-pursuit or joint operations: situations in which officers move into and operate (jointly) on another member state’s territory. Unusual cross-border workers and the regulation of their mobility: police Both the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement (CISA) encourage bilateral law enforcement cooperation between member states. The two main references for operational cooperation in EU law are CISA and the Prüm Decisions: both leave it to member states and their bilateral agreements to define in detail the powers conferred in cross-border police cooperation (CBPC). In launching its initiative for an “EU Police Cooperation Code” (EU-PCC), the European Commission problematized that today multiple options are given in EU law and that different rules apply across 60+ bilateral police cooperation agreements. This “complex web” was said to hamper an effective law enforcement cooperation. The EU-PCC initiative resulted in the proposal (2021) and the adoption of a three items package: a directive and a regulation on information exchange and a Council Recommendation on operational law enforcement cooperation. LEmobAB objectives and expected impact As outlined in the project summary, LEmobAB pursues three research questions aligned with an (1) empirical, (2) theoretical and (3) applied research objective. Its envisaged impact targets respectively three identified gaps through (1) data-collection and analysis of multi-scalar relations, variables and meanings of enhanced CBPC, (2) the elaboration of an interdisciplinary conceptual framework; 3) enhanced impact of SSH understandings of complex legal, social and political dynamics by exploring the use of digital-visual methods. LEmobAB connects bottom-up insights from selected border-regions and countries with an analysis of bilateral legal frameworks and of ongoing developments at EU level. This study will produce key empirical results addressing an empirical research gap at scholarly and policy level, accompanied by grounded practice-oriented and space-sensitive concepts of law-making and of law-enforcement regarding a sensitive element in the process of European integration: the exercise of policing powers beyond national jurisdiction. Being an MSCA individual post-doctoral fellowship, the research objectives align with training objectives and career-development goals, aimed at fostering the intersectoral and interdisciplinary expertise of the researcher.

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