Division Chapter 24: Justice, freedom and security

Continue to implement the integrated border management action plan, develop the main databases for border management and ensure that they are connected, upgrade equipment for document analysis and border surveillance, ensure effective implementation of requirements for delivery of high-quality travel and identity documents and provide further training for staff.

Provide adequate funding and training for implementation of the police reform, strengthen coordination and cooperation both among police bodies and between the police and other law enforcement agencies and strengthen cooperation between the criminal police and the public prosecutors.

Develop and implement a comprehensive human resources and training strategy for the police and upgrade their equipment.

Further intensify the fight against organised crime, notably by making better use of special investigative measures and by promptly issuing and following up international arrest warrants (including for computer crime, with a special focus on child pornography), and create an integrated intelligence system for inter-agency use in the fight against organised crime, including trafficking in human beings, arms and drugs.

Strengthen efforts to implement the national action plan to combat human trafficking and the capacity to investigate computer crime.

Implement the EC/former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia readmission agreement and negotiate readmission agreements with the countries of origin of transiting migrants.

Intensify the process of introduction of legal instruments guaranteeing the rights of persons in need of (international) protection.

Ensure alignment of asylum and aliens acts with the relevant acquis.