RESULTS / ACHIEVEMENTS
PROTECTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
Responding to the Libyan government’s request to support the Tourism Police (TP) and Department of Antiquities (DoA) in the protection of cultural heritage, EULEAD contributed to implementing concrete measures for protecting the Sabratha archaeological site, including training TP staff, provision of surveillance equipment and conducting awareness raising activities. Since 2023, EULEAD aims at a more institutional long-term development, through the training and mentoring of TP high-ranked officers.
SECURITY OF THE NATIONAL ELECTIONS
Since November 2021, EULEAD has developed a set of processes and procedures to operate the elections operations room of the General Department for Security Operations (GDSO), tasked by the Ministry of Interior to manage the security of the election. The room’s function will be to monitor security incidents during the elections period, to inform decision-makers and help coordinating incident responses.
SUPPORT TO THE SECURITY ARRANGEMENT COMMITTEE
Following the UN ceasefire agreement in October 202, with a view to ensure the governance of the Coastal Road Security Unit, two MoI representatives have been nominated for the Security Arrangement Committee (SAC). For this joint dispositive to be quickly active on the ground an urgent infrastructure work was needed to launch further capacity building of this coastal road security unit. To do so, EULEAD provided accommodation and administrative units to the SAC personnel deployed and helped setting up a new strategic checkpoint. Cover hangars were installed to cover the road at the three locations to allow police controls.
EXPLOSIVE THREATS MITIGATION
Due to the multiple wars post Second World War, Libya is highly contaminated with Explosives Remnants of War. At the end of the Haftar-led offensive on the South of Tripoli, in the summer 2020, additional Improvised Explosive Devices and ERWs were left by the Wagner Group in once populated areas. The significant contamination of populated areas by ERWs and mines could only be addressed through long-term investment and the establishment of governance systems.
Since 2020, EULEAD has supported the CID by reinforcing their operational capacities, enabling the deployment of their EOD teams without casualties among operators, and tons of explosive destroyed by the CID since the project’s intervention. Moreover, the project is working on sustainable institutional capacity building through the development of an operations room and resources management database.
FORENSICS AND MASS GRAVES INVESTIGATIONS
Following the discovery of mass graves in Tarhuna, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) called for the formation of a fact-finding committee that should investigate those crimes and asked the EU for technical support. Between 2021 and 2022, EULEAD provided four Ground Penetrating Radar and trained four CID team (from Tripoli, Sabha and Benghazi). Thanks to this support CID staff are now able to quickly and systematically search sites were mass graves are supposed to be located.
MINISTRY OF INTERIOR’S OUTREACH CAPACITIES
On 26th of July 2021, EULEAD team received a request for support from the Ministry of Interior, to support the modernization of the MoI Media Office (MO). The MO is acting under the supervision of the Relations and Cooperation Department (RCD), in charge of public relations and international cooperation for the MoI.
Through the various media it uses, the MO aims at building confidence between the MoI and the public. Indeed, if the MO publishes the latest news about the MoI, its main focus is to inform the population about crime trends in Libya. It is therefore taking care of official communications between the MoI and the public. Given this key role, it is essential to ensure the MoI’s MO team is able to publish content reflecting positively on the MoI, but it is also important for the MoI to adopt a unified language and communication.
