European Cities Against Drugs

Linköping City Council

County Police in Östergötland

Please visit www.ecad.net for information and registration

Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 13.00 – Friday, March 8, 2013 16.00 Welcome to Linköping and welcome to share experiences with your counterparts in law enforcement, research and drug policy, experts from international drug control bodies and addiction treatment specialists!

Ann-Cathrine Hjerdt, Mayor of Linköping, Sweden The conference will focus on:

Police, customs and prosecutors working against drugs

International drug control bodies

Medical marijuana—a way to legalize cannabis

Treatment instead of prison?

Local action plans and international drug policy issues

Andrès Finguerut, Chief of the INCB Secreatriat, Austria, tbc UN Drug control bodies and cooperation against normalisation of drug use

Fabio Bernabei, researcher/ journalist at Osservatoria Droga, ECAD representative, Italy Italy: countering drug trafficking in your region

Representative of INTERPOL

Frans Koopmans, De Hoop, addiction treatment Foundation, Holland Drug Court and its effects

Kerstin Käll, Senior Physician at Linköping University Hospital, Sweden Effects of synthetic drugs, polydrug addiction and medical marijuana

Sveinung Sponheim, Police expert/ researcher, Oslo Police Squad, Norway Open drug scenes - that is why the police thinks it is good that drugs stay in the same area

Astrid Eklund, vice Prosecutor General, Sweden Effects of reduced punishment in cases of committed severe crimes

Picture by Oskar Lüren: Drottninggatan i Linköping

Linköping, Sweden

March 7-8, 2013

P R O G R A M M E H I G H L I G H T S

LAW ENFORCEMENT AT THE FRONTLINE

OF INTERNATIONAL ACTION ON DRUG CONTROL

Foto by Tomas Kilman

European Cities Against Drugs

Linköping City Council

County Police in Östergötland

The conference targets law enforcement officers, researchers, practitioners and politicians from Scandinavia, EU and sur-rounding countries. Key-note speakers, experts in the field from Italy, Sweden, Hol-land, EU and international drug control bodies, invite to a con-structive dialogue and experience exchange.

THE VENUE Linköping City Hall (Stadshuset) Storgatan 43

REGISTRATION Only electronic registration at www.ecad.net. Download Conference Registration Form and send it back to us at ecad@ecad.net

REGISTRATION FEE Representatives of ECAD cities: 60 EUR Other participants: 80 EUR We will invoice you when your conference reg-istration form is received.

CONFERENCE LANGUAGE English

TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATION Linköping is situated ca 200 km to the South of Stockholm. There are interna-tional direct flights to Linköping from Amsterdam with KLM.

Hotel Booking Deadline: February 8, 2013 We have negotiated special room rates for you. Please choose from the hotels beside, you

need to book your room yourself. You have to make your room reservation 1 month prior to the conference at the latest.

FIRST HOTEL LINKÖPING

Address: Storgatan 70-76 t.: +46 (0)13 13 02 00 f.: +46 (0)13 13 27 85 E-mail: linkoping@firsthotels.se Single room : 1196 SEK /night Double room : 1396 SEK / night Breakfast and VAT included Please contact the hotel and men-tion the code: LIN070313 in order to book your room.

BEST WESTERN HOTEL

Address: Hantverkaregatan 1 t.: +46 (0)13 12 90 00 f.: +46 (0)13 13 88 50 E-mail: info@hotellinkoping.se Single room: Single room: 1 196 SEK/night Double room: 1 436 SEK/night Breakfast and VAT included Please contact the hotel and men-tion the code: ECAD in order to book your room. Final conference programme will be available in January 2013.

Please visit www.ecad.net for information and registration

Picture by Oskar Lüren: Drottninggatan in Linköping

Pictures by Erik G. Svensson