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Biography

Mr. Klaus Schmidt, a Senior Police Officer from the Bavarian State Police with more than 40 years of service, is a veteran of all EU Police Missions in Albania.
He was born in 1945 and is a native of Fuerth/Baveria where he joined the Police after serving his time in the military.

Mr. Schmidt is a graduate of the Senior Command Course in Germany, the FBI National Academy, the FBI Executives training at Quantico, Virginia and at the University of Princeton, the DEA Commander training and the West Point Leadership and Command training. He studied from 1985 to 1990 Political Science and Sociology at the University of Wuerzburg and was granted a scholarship for the University of Southern California where he graduated the Delinquency Control Institute. He is a Graduate of the Senior Executive Class on Counterterrorism at the College for Security Studies in Germany.

Mr. Schmidt held several senior positions within the Bavarian State Police, the German Senior Command College, the European Drugs Unit and at Europol. He served as Commander of the MAPE Mission, Head of Operations with the ECPA-A Mission and Deputy Head of Mission with PAMECA (2002-2004).
His service in the Police includes several years in the Bomb Squad of the Bavarian State Police, where he also received training as a diver for underwater demolition.

Mr. Schmidt worked during this period of time as instructor for Special Forces in Bavaria, on federal level and abroad. His main professional experience lies within combating Serious and Organised Crime.
Mr. Schmidt received several decorations for his service including the West Point Leadership Award.
As Head of the Mission he represents the project on high level towards the Albanian authorities, the European Commission, the EU Member States and the International Consortium of Donors. He orchestrates and monitors PAMECA’s activities and evaluates the quality of reports and analysis.
According to a decision of the Government of the Republic of Albania dated 23 June 2005, Mr. Schmidt was appointed as Professor for International Strategic Management for his role of implementing a new national command, leadership and management system for the ASP.

Biography for Douglas Adams

The Deputy Head of Mission is Douglas Adams, a retired Senior Police Officer from the UK.
His service with Essex Police spanned 34 years where he worked in a variety of uniformed specialisms, including Public Order Police, Firearms Operations, Underwater search, Critical Incident Management and Traffic Policing. This also included Marine and Air Support, Police dogs and horses.
He has attended numerous training courses at the UK Police Staff College at Bramshill as well as specialised training at various institutions throughout the UK.
He was directly involved, in different roles, in the successful peaceful resolutions of the last three aircraft hi-jackings at Stansted Airport.
He first served in Albania in 2001 when as Chief of Personnel, he was required to close the Multi-national Advisory Police Element-WEU Mission, (MAPE). He continued in Albania with European Community Police Assistance – Albania, (ECPA), as a Strategic Adviser to the Albanian State Police. His main project at this time was to assess the Albanian police infrastructure needs. He returned to the UK in 2002.
Here he served as Driver/Logistics Manager for Essex Police until January 2005 when he returned to Albania as Deputy Head of Mission/Operations Manager for the Police Assistance Mission of the European Community to Albania,(PAMECA).
Within this role he is responsible for coordinating the activities of 16 International experts specializing in the fields of Organised Crime, Counter Terrorism, Public Order, Border Management, Human and Material Resources, Criminal Justice, Training, Strategic Advice and Information Technology Management.

The International Experts represent 9 member states of the European Union bringing a diverse wealth of experience.

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