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Name
Maria De Benito
Title
Border Management and Trafficking in Persons, Spanish National Police
Bio
Ms Maria de Benito Rodriguez is a Spanish police officer with more than 15 years of experience dealing with Border Management and Trafficking in Persons with the Spanish National Police and various International Organizations.
Among her international experience is the United Nations Police Division as a Community Policing Officer at the UN Standing Police Capacity (2020-2021) where her work contributed to development of the Border Management´s guidelines for UN contributing countries and the support to the UN Peacekeeping Missions in the areas of Community Policing and Border Management.
From 2017 to 2020 she was appointed as a Migrants/Refugees Security Adviser to the OSCE Mission to Skopje with the main task of developing the “Contingency Plan for better management of large groups of migrants” and assisting and coaching the law enforcement authorities and other stakeholders of North Macedonia in designing and implementing adequate policies and regulations that enhanced the capacities of the institutions and improved the prevention of Trafficking in Persons.
Maria was also seconded to the European Asylum Support Office in Sicily as an International Protection Expert (2015-2016). During this assignment her main task was to identify the potential people in need of International Protection.
Maria holds a Master's degree in Migration Management from the Business School (Barcelona) and a Postgraduate degree in Police Intervention dealing with Migrants from the Business School (Barcelona).
Among her international experience is the United Nations Police Division as a Community Policing Officer at the UN Standing Police Capacity (2020-2021) where her work contributed to development of the Border Management´s guidelines for UN contributing countries and the support to the UN Peacekeeping Missions in the areas of Community Policing and Border Management.
From 2017 to 2020 she was appointed as a Migrants/Refugees Security Adviser to the OSCE Mission to Skopje with the main task of developing the “Contingency Plan for better management of large groups of migrants” and assisting and coaching the law enforcement authorities and other stakeholders of North Macedonia in designing and implementing adequate policies and regulations that enhanced the capacities of the institutions and improved the prevention of Trafficking in Persons.
Maria was also seconded to the European Asylum Support Office in Sicily as an International Protection Expert (2015-2016). During this assignment her main task was to identify the potential people in need of International Protection.
Maria holds a Master's degree in Migration Management from the Business School (Barcelona) and a Postgraduate degree in Police Intervention dealing with Migrants from the Business School (Barcelona).
