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Anticorruption Series: Judges and Prosecutors course concluded today. This anti-corruption course focused on the investigation and prosecution of complex corruption cases. It was designed to afford an interactive forum on a range of topics to include international standards in the fight again... Read More

In July 1995, the FBI assigned Special Agent M. Miles Burden to the U.S. Embassy in Vienna, Austria.  His assignment was to work criminal investigations with police in 12 countries in Central Europe, including Hungary.   Appointed to this post by FBI Director, Louis Freeh, SA Burde... Read More

The program celebrates the Inaugural ILEA Day and ILEA Awards, an opportunity for us to highlight alumni who truly exemplify the ILEA Program's mission. We would like to take the time to highlight alumni accomplishment and emphasize the value of sharing success ... Read More

Featuring James A. Walsh, Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs ​ Hear from our Alumni Ambassadors! Read More

On October 7, 2020, the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) in Budapest, Hungary hosted a virtual two-hour Cyber Investigations and Case Studies refresher course conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Countries that had been requested to select pa... Read More

One-week United States Secret Service (USSS) Computer and Network Intrusion Course concluded on February 28, 2020. This course was an intermediate level course designed for law enforcement personnel who collect and analyze various types of evidence from a live computer. Participants learned tools... Read More

On October 15, the one-week Small Arms Trafficking course concluded. The course focused on areas related to firearms trafficking, including firearms identification, firearms tracing, identifying homemade and counterfeit firearms, 3D printing of firearms, social media exploitation, internet firear... Read More

On October 25, 24 participants from Georgia, Kosovo, Hungary, and Ukraine successfully graduated the United States Secret Service (USSS) course on Investigating Criminal Use of Cryptocurrency concluded. This course was a two-week course designed to present participants with a sufficient backgrou... Read More

Between October 7 and 11, ILEA Budapest in co-operation with the U.S. Department of State’s Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) offered a training for Drug Unit Commanders from five countries of the region: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. This one-week cour... Read More

Between October 7 and 18, ILEA Budapest offered a course on Personnel and Facility Security. This two week course prepared law enforcement officers to oversee personnel and facilities security measures to counter terrorist threats. Presenters included personnel from Diplomatic Security Service, ... Read More

Between September 30 and October 4, ILEA Budapest offered a course on Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation. The course examined the issues of human trafficking and child exploitation, coercion for the purpose of economic or sexual exploitation and the organizations reliance on long-term explo... Read More

On September 26, ATF’s annual International Post Blast Investigations course concluded. 24 students from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Kosovo and Moldova were provided with hands-on training by reconstructing components of an explosive device recovered through various investigative techn... Read More

Between August 26 - 30, ILEA Budapest offered a course in radiological and nuclear smuggling and detection, which was intended to provide a comprehensive introduction to the threat of radiological and nuclear smuggling, terrorism, and the critical role law enforcement plays in a national-level nu... Read More

On August 30, 2019, we concluded another successful FIT course with participating delegations from Albania, the Czech Republic, Moldova and Poland. The Financial Investigative Techniques course focused on using financial investigative techniques and forensic accounting to identify, investigate, ... Read More

On July 5, ILEA Budapest concluded a very special course. Organized by ILEA Roswell but hosted at ILEA Budapest, this executive level program was conducted in a forum setting that allowed the participating delegates to develop a deeper knowledge base related to corruption situations, as... Read More