The project is being implemented by the Ministry in cooperation with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Mission in Croatia and the British government.
The purpose of the project, worth 112,000 pounds sterling, is the training of 27 police instructors who will transfer their knowledge to 315 police employees in charge of dealing with illegal migrations.
The first seminar is taking place in Tuheljske Toplice near Zagreb from December 4 to 8.
A state secretary at the Interior Ministry, Ivica Buconjic, said Croatia was investing a lot of effort and had achieved considerable success in suppressing illegal migrations and trafficking in humans. Given that Croatia is a transit country, everything that it does is significant for suppressing such crimes in the European Union, he added.
Buconjic said Great Britain was a reliable partner significantly helping Croatia with know-how, equipment and money so that it could meet the EU's demands.
Assistant Interior Minister for European Integration Filip Dragovic said it was key to amend the law on aliens and the National Schenghen Action Plan in order to determine measures and activities for meeting standards.
Dragovic said the Interior Ministry had done a lot in the process of association and meeting of EU standards, as confirmed by the latest Progress Report, but added that a lot more needed to be done.
British Ambassador John Ramsden underlined that Croatian-British police cooperation was increasingly better and that the common interest was to fight organised crime and the smuggling of people and illegal drugs.
The head of the IOM Mission in Croatia, Lovorka Marinovic, said that over 300 illegal migration suppression projects were being implemented in more than 70 countries.