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NMIOTC organized and conducted the Maritime Interdiction Operations (MIO) Lessons Learned (LL) Lessons Identified (LI) and Best Practices (BP) Process Workshop in the eve of Operation Sea Guardian Focused Operations in-brief at its premises on Thursday the 7th of Feb 2019. The aim of the workshop was to analyze VBSS and MIO operations which were executed recently form a Hellenic Coast Guard SOF team to a vessel involved in illicit trafficking as well as various MIO ops executed from Hellenic Navy assets and SOF/UDT teams in an effort to support NATO’s LL and BP process. The LL & BP Workshop

On Tuesday February 5th, 2019 the Annual Information Meeting (AIM) and the NMIOTC Advisory Board (NAB) meeting took place in the Center’s premises chaired by the NMIOTC Commandant. The AIM is a meeting that SNs are informed on all issues concerning NMIOTC activities for 2018 and NAB is a body responsible for providing advice for the year 2019 to the Commandant on all NMIOTC activities, for a more effective execution of his mission. In both meeting representatives from Sponsoring Nation’s Representatives (BGR-CZE-ITA-POL-ROU-TUR) participated.

In order to obtain proper and accurate conclusions regarding the developing Course 20000  “Protection of Critical Maritime Infrastructure (CMI)”, NMIOTC conducted trials using as training platform of the Ocean Rig Management Inc. (OCR) drilling ships from 26 Feb – 02 Mar 18, by deploying a Mobile Education and Training Team (METT) in Pireus, Greece, “Train the Trainers” training has been organized among Norway Special Operations Command (NORSOCOM) and NMIOTC from 15th to  23rd Jan 19, in NMIOTC premises, for drawing proper and accurate conclusions regarding the development of the Course and enhance NMIOTC sea trainers with the topics which are

From 14th to 25th January 2019, the Train-the-Trainers Technical Instructors Course was conducted at NMIOTC premises, in cooperation with the Hellenic Navy Training Centre ‘’PALASKAS’’. The objective of the course was to provide the basic technical skills, advanced teaching methods and presentation skills, required to teach technical subjects in an international training audience, while maintaining the high qualification level of the NMIOTC’s instructors in the context of the ACT Quality Assurance Process. In total 14 staff officers from Bahrain, Estonia, Malta, Poland, Romania and Greece, participated in the course.

On Friday 11th of January 2019, the traditional New Year’s cake cutting took place at NMIOTC premises, in the presence of the Centre’s military and civilian personnel

On Thursday 20th of December 2018, NMIOTC organized the Christmas Tree Celebration event with the participation of the families and children of the Centre’s military and civilian personnel. The event included a Christmas show and all children had the opportunity to talk and receive presents from Santa Claus himself.