The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is currently training two Romanian officers in fighting terrorism, said the FBI director James Comey, while on a visit to Romania on Tuesday, March 3. Since 1995, 32 Romanian officers have graduated the FBI National Academy in Quantico, in Virginia, US.

The US – Romanian collaboration also had 41 Romanian officers training in crisis negotiation and tactic and urban survival at the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) in Budapest, Comey also said. ILEA Budapest opened in 1995 supported, by U.S. law enforcement agencies, Western European governments and Canada.

The FBI and Romania’s Intelligence Agency SRI must continue collaboration, said the FBI head in a meeting with the newly appointed Romanian spy chief Eduard Hellvig. The two institutions work together in fighting cyber crime, counter-intelligence investigations and consistently share information to combat corruption, terrorism, and international organized crime.

Classes of some 225 officers take undergraduate and/or graduate college courses at the FBI campus in Quantico, Virginia, in law, behavioral science, forensic science, understanding terrorism/terrorist mindsets, leadership development, communication, and health/fitness.  Participation is by invitation only, through a nomination process. Participants are drawn from every state in the union, from U.S. territories, and from over 160 international partner nations.

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