Cybercrime Training Competency Framework

This report aims to identify the required competencies, skills and training needs of the key actors involved in combating cybercrime at EU level, focusing on both LE and the judiciary.

Drawing on the contributions from MS and the analysis of stakeholder input, it outlines a TCF^[1] on cybercrime based on identified categories of actors, and presents a set of key findings and recommendations.

The delivery of this report is one of the operational action items agreed within the EMPACT policy cycle. It is the joint effort of CEPOL, Eurojust, Europol, EJTN and ECTEG and presents the results of a one-year project. While the main focus is on the competency and skill sets of the main roles identified, the results also emphasise the need to evolve from a needs-driven and more reactive approach to a more strategic and sustainable one, considering the need to aim for an agreed governance model at EU level amongst all partners involved. The key roles identified range from entry level investigators and examiners, judges and prosecutors, to managers, decision makers and policy makers; the different needs per role in terms of knowledge, skills and expertise establish the main building blocks of the TCF^[1].

The categories of key actors were identified based on a questionnaire that was directed at LE and the judiciary in EU MS and submitted via the national EMPACT coordinators. This was followed up by dedicated workshops organised during a meeting of ECTEG where the required competencies and skills for each group of actors were specified.

While there is a perceived need for capacity building in general, the majority of the input received pertained to LE, suggesting that there might be a need to further strengthen coordination efforts in this regard.