Slovenia has been participating in the European project ILECU's, intended for the establishment of coordination points for police cooperation in the countries of the Western Balkans. Two representatives of the Slovenian Police participated in the presentation of the action plan for the implementation of this project on 22 October 2009 in Macedonia.
The role of Slovenia in this project is to help Macedonia in the implementation of the action plan. Namely, the initiator and leader of project in the European Commission is the Austrian Ministry of the Interior; the Slovenian and Romanian Ministries of the Interior are also participating in the project.
Representatives of the Slovenian Police, the Director of the Criminal Police Directorate at the General Police Directorate M.A. Aleksander Jevšek and Head of the International Police Cooperation Division at the Criminal Police Directorate Dušan Kerin participated in the presentation in Skopje.
Representatives of the Macedonian Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Justice and their Office of the State Prosecutor General and Directorate for Personal Data Protection also participated at the presentation. After the opening address of the Director of the Macedonian Directorate for Public Safety M.A. Ljupče Todorovski and Director of the Slovenian Criminal Police Directorate M.A. Aleksander Jevšek, the representative of the European Commission in Macedonia Giorgio Butini and Deputy Head of the ILECU's project Wolfgang Gerstl expressed their views of the project. The head of the project group in Macedonia Aleksandar Jovanov and head of the sub-project team Dušan Kerin presented the project itself as well as the action plan for its implementation.
The ILECU's project (Law Enforcement Central UnitS) presents an establishment of national coordination points for data and request exchange within the framework of Interpol, Europol, Schengen information system, Frontex agency, SECI centre, Eurojusta, European Judicial Network, liaison officers and bilateral as well as multilateral agreements in the area of the Western Balkans (in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Albania).