They were signed by Assistant Interior Minister Zarko Katic and the head of the IOM Mission to Croatia office, Lovorka Marinovic, who voiced confidence that their cooperation would be another step forward in combating organised crime and trafficking in humans.
Katic underlined the usefulness of IOM's assistance in staff education.
The protocol regulates areas of cooperation, actions and obligations of participants in the technical building of capacities and increasing of cooperation on the Croatian-Serbian border, a project that is being implemented since 1 December 2006.
Financed by the British government and the IOM, the project envisages the procurement of technical equipment for Croatian border police worth about 1.4 million kuna. Part of this equipment, a life detector, was donated when the project was inaugurated at the Bajakovo border crossing at the end of March.
Marinovic said the protocol signed today would contribute to the building of the border with Serbia, which she said would in due time become the border of the European Union.
She also said the police education project jointly implemented by Croatia's Interior Ministry and IOM was being applied in the entire Southeast Europe and might be applied in Western Europe as well.
Croatia has been an IOM member since 23 November 1993.