387 María del Carmen Girón Tomás An analysis of the National Security Law... for the twenty-first century. On the basis of this Global Strategy, the EU will review existing sector strategies and develop and implement new thematic and geographic strategies in tune with the Global Strategy’s policy priorities, plans such as the recently created Security Commissariat with the backing of experts in Home affairs, Mobility and Transport, a move that in turn reinforces the proposal put forward here to include Security on Land Routes as an area of National Security and Mobility and Land Transport Security as a line of action under the National Security Strategy. Coordinated effective criminal investigation activity assists in the fight against terrorism and specific forms of crime, and here, for example, it is important to highlight the role of the EU’s performance in the fight against organised crime and serious forms of international crime in strengthening operational cooperation, and its considerable contribution to the implementation of the EU’s renewed Internal Security Strategy 2015-2020, as well as the guarantee of “an anticipatory and criminal intelligence-oriented approach in this regard”. This would require generating a common area of interconnectivity between all Intelligence and Information Services of the EU member states, rather than an occasional exchange of information. On the basis of the Prüm Treaty, joint operations allow international police cooperation beyond the range of possibilities offered by Joint Investigation Teams. The objective set out by the Prüm Treaty of stronger cooperation in the fight against terrorism, cross-border crime and illegal migration is fostered by the so-called ‘communitisation’ of the Third Pillar, in accordance with the Treaty of Lisbon, by consolidating the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice and promoting greater effectiveness in police and judicial cooperation on criminal matters. “Nevertheless, it would be desirable to achieve the long-awaited Criminal Intelligence Model, under the command of a supra-ministerial authority to deepen the exchange of anti-terrorist criminal intelligence and to deal more efficiently with the main threats to Security”55. One of the main difficulties with many National Security risk analyses is that they can move beyond presentations, plausible scenarios and possible future scenarios with effective and feasible neutralisation measures. There is a growing number of authors who advocate using scientific means for their research. Among the traditional difficulties cited by these authors are, for example, the partial nature of existing studies, not only in terms of subject matter, which is usually focused on terrorism, but also in terms of the scope of what is available, though it may include comparisons between several countries or geostrategic areas, but also because of the inertia of resorting to customary thought patterns, decision-making and management in government circles of the countries, agencies, or organisations with a specific mandate to carry out these analyses or to take decisions that curb them 56. Similarly, there is a decided 55 DEL MORAL TORRES, Anselmo. Cooperación Policial en la Unión Europea. La necesidad de un modelo de inteligencia criminal eficiente. Edition No.: 1ª; Madrid, 2010, Ed. Dykinson ISBN 8499822460. 56 COHEN J. et al. “Research on terrorism. Critical analysis’ in Knowledge, the Great Challenge to Deal with Terrorism, Revista de Estudios en Seguridad Internacional, Vol. 2, Nº 1, 2016, pp 46 y http://revista.ieee.es/index.php/ieee
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