Case Study: Cross - Border Surveillance vs. Discreet Surveillance

Abstract:     
Free movement of persons without checks at the common borders. This is one of the benefits of being a part of the Schengen Area. In order to ensure an area of freedom, security and justice, the European Union designed and implemented compensatory measures to facilitate only the free movement of persons, not the free movement of criminality. The cross-border surveillance and the discreet surveillance are two instruments at the disposal of those who fight against criminality, which nowadays is not only a national problem, but a widespread interconnected phenomenon.

Keywords: cross-border criminality, surveillance, police check, bilateral agreement, convention implementing the Schengen Agreement, Schengen Information System

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