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Five years after 9/11 and roughly a month after British intelligence thwarted an alleged plot by terrorists to blow up US airliners over the Atlantic, the Czech Republic is still undecided over how to further improve and streamline its own communication and data sharing between the police and intelligence services. Shortly before leaving office, former Interior Minister Frantisek Bublan advocated founding a special centre that would improve the chances of preventing potential attacks on European soil, by working more closely with BIS counter-intelligence, the Office for Foreign Relations and Information, and military intelligence.  More

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Three months ago it caused nothing less than a furore in the Czech Republic: the news that wiretapping of telephones was among the highest in Europe. Following several high-profile tapping cases the country's president himself asked for a full investigation. Now, the police study is complete and both the interior minister and other officials are standing by numbers said to show that tapping in this country is not nearly as high as previously thought.  More

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