1. The consequence of these expectations and conception was appointing, in most EU countries, National Offices for the Asset Recovery. In Poland this role is fully fulfilled by the Department for Asset Recovery of the Office of Criminal Service of Police Headquarters, whose representatives com. Łukasz Mądrzejowski and Dagna Wierzchoń will discuss issues related to practical functioning of the office mentioned above in Poland.

2. System created in this way allows normal, fast and efficient exchange of information with similar offices appointed in other countries, which plays a fundamental role in the area of providing direct access of the contact point to data containing information relevant for asset recovery derived from criminal activities.

3. The quality of this information, however, depends on legal systems operating in different countries and databases available.

4. An example of a positive solution is Italy that use e.g. the "Progetto Molecola" (Molecule Project), i.e. a powerful computer system connected to multiple databases that are in current use in the banking system, or Romania, which belongs to rapidly growing European countries in the area of property recovery..

5. Therefore, during the seminar, we will have the opportunity to hear presentations on "Experiences of Police in determining the assets of suspects in the country and abroad", of our foreign guests, i.e. Major Nicola Monfredy of the Guardia di Finanza of Italy and Andrei Elena Tirlei from the Ministry of Justice of Romania.

6. Poland belongs to the group of countries with serious limitations of access to the information contained in the bank and the treasury of tax databases, which often prevents rapid and effective action of the police.

7. The subject of the possibility of "Establishing and protecting the assets of offenders of criminal and tax crimes made in international trade" will be presented by Deputy Director of the Tax Chamber in Poznań designated by the Minister of Finance to direct the Office of the National Tax Information in Konin

8. Currently in Poland for many years, work has been underway to create the National Register of Bank Accounts, which the Polish police among others shall have access to.

9. Western patterns indicate that the problems of this type have long been noticed and prople have tried to resolve them, sometimes with difficulty, the German example, where after many years, the use of the BAFIN system has been introduced - a central register of bank accounts, which can be used by the German police.

10. Activities of the General Inspector of Financial Information constitute support for law enforcement authorities to block financial means of entities implementing suspicious transactions in local and international trade.

11. A special role in this respect is played by Cooperation Division of the National Financial Information Department of the Ministry of Finance. Its Chief Wojciech Ryżowski, who will discuss the subject of "Cooperation of GIIF with law enforcement authorities in terms of blocking financial means of entities implementing suspicious transactions in local and international trade."

12. This division for many years, has also promoted the idea of constructive cooperation with law enforcement authorities with respect to the exchange of information about entities whose activities in the area of financial trading can lead at least to a suspicion of putting into circulation financial resources coming from an offense.

13. Another element without which there would be no effective system of asset recovery in an international aspect is an active part in the preparatory proceedings of the prosecutor's office.

14. It is to the prosecutor that we address requests for orders for freezing property on - established in the country and abroad – suspects’ assets.

15. Only if they are approved of, the prosecutor’s office may apply for international legal assistance in physical safeguarding of property of suspects in third countries.

16. Without the constructive cooperation between the police and the prosecution, many property safaguarding cases both in the country and abroad could not have been carried out.

17. A guest of the Panel will be a person who has always valued good relations of cooperation on the line Police - Prosecutor i.e. prosecutor Lucyna Szewczykowska- Head of the Visitation and Periodic Assessment of Prosecutors of Appellate Prosecution, who will present the topic of "Cross-border crime and safeguarding property in the country and abroad„s.

18. Summary International cooperation within broadly defined asset recovery gives the Polish Police fairly broad possibilities for action on both operating and proces level.

19. An important problem of Polish officers remain, however, legal barriers preventing access to databases, which contain important information on assets of ”straw men”/ suspects (bank or tax data).

20. In order to eliminate these barriers, they must be consistently pointed out in the context of international training conference, and others in which one of the main objectives is to exchange experiences and good practices.

21. These exchanges are intended to finally improve the effectiveness of local solutions, often maimed and de facto looking through the prism of losses caused by criminal groups, detrimental to both you and the citizens for whom, despite many obstacles, as the police of Greater Poland, we operate and will actively do in the future.