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Media and Information Agency denies reports of Italian police deployment to Albania

Urim Shera — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:22:48 +0000

TIRANA, Oct. 21 /ATA/ – The Media and Information Agency (MIA) on Wednesday denied reports circulating on social media that Italy was sending police forces to Albania.

In a statement posted online, MIA said the information was false.

No Italian police forces have been deployed or sent to Albanian territory, the agency said.

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Albanian, Italian police to conduct aerial surveillance operations against Albanian cannabis plantations

Urim Shera — Sat, 24 May 2025 13:26:17 +0000

TIRANA, May 24 /ATA/ – Albania’s State Police and Italy’s Guardia di Finanza will conduct aerial missions to scan large areas of the Albanian territory for cannabis plantations as part of joint efforts to prevent cultivation of narcotics across the country.

General Director of the State Police, Ilir Proda, met with Italy’s Ministry of Interior high delegation headed by Brigadier General Luigi Vinciguerra, the Head of Guardia di Finanza’s III Operations Department, Brigadier General Giampiero Ianni, Director of International Cooperation Police Service, ,Salvatore Gava, security expert at Italian Embassy in Tirana, Ferdinando Rucco from the Italian Interforce Police mission in Albania, Commander of the Guardia di Finanza in Durrës, expert Giampiero Carrieri, and representatives from the Benecon University Consortium.

The meeting focused on ways to coordinate aerial scanning campaign of the Albanian territory for 2025 as part of joint efforts to prevent the cultivation of narcotics.

They also discussed concrete measures to enhance preventive operations and the use of state-of-the-art surveillance operations.

Albania’s State Police Chief Ilir Proda praised close cooperation with the Italian authorities, underlining that combating cannabis cultivation is a top priority.

“Aerial surveillance, police intelligence and international cooperation are key to success,” he said.

General Vinciguerra praised the commitment of the State Police and emphasized that strong partnership between the police and law enforcement agencies between the two countries has paid off.

He affirmed continued support from the Italian police and the Guardia di Finanza and readiness to provide technical resources and expertise to enhance e the effectiveness of territorial control.

The Italian delegation and the Albanian police officials then inaugurated the the laboratory for processing aerial monitoring data, which has been set up by the Guardia di Finanza on the premises of the State Police.

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Interior Minister Balla hosts Deputy Director of Italian police to discuss cooperation against organized crime

Urim Shera — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 20:28:25 +0000

TIRANA, Oct 26 /ATA/ – The Albanian State Police and the Italian Police have ushered in an intense stage of cooperation and relations.

Close cooperation between the police forces of the two neighbouring countries is witnessed through the high number of joint investigative teams to look into cases concerning both countries.

The Minister of Interior Taulant Balla, at a meeting on Thursday with Prefect Vittorio Rizzi, the Deputy Director General of Public Security and Central Director of the Italian Criminal Police, praised his contribution to the successful and effective cooperation between the police force of both countries.

“The cooperation with Italy’s Polizia di Stato and other Italian law enforcement agencies stands at the highest level and is very efficient. A total of 14 joint investigative teams have been established to combat organized crime, drug trafficking, cybercrime, financial crime,” Balla said in a post on the social media after their meeting in Tirana.

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