13th General Assembly of IKD (International Federation of Associations of Private Detectives)

The 13th General Assembly of the International Federation of Associations of Private Detectives (IKD) was held in Budapest on October 6-8, 2022. The Assembly was officially attended by the CAAU's IKD delegates, Oleksandr Denysenko and Igor Timofeev. At the beginning of the opening ceremony, the participants observed a minute of silence in memory of Ukrainians killed by Russian aggressors. The IKD leadership, as well as the President and Vice President of the Association of Hungarian Detectives, were presented by our delegates with IKD badges framed by yellow and blue ribbons of the colors of the Ukrainian flag. During the Assembly, the issues of activity, training and interaction of private detectives of European countries and the peculiarities of private detectives' activity in the context of strengthening of European data protection legislation - General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR - were considered. In the afternoon, administrative and financial issues of the IKD were discussed and, most importantly, proposals for holding the IKD Assemblies in 2023-2025. Our Association of Private Detectives of Ukraine was unanimously elected by the IKD deputies as the organizer of the 16th IKD Assembly in 2025 in Kyiv. The Association of Detectives from Romania NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DETECTIVES FROM ROMANIA (ANDR) and the Association of Detectives from Spain PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PRIVATE DETECTIVES OF SPAIN (APDPE) were unanimously elected as the organizers of the 14th Assembly and the 15th Assembly respectively. In the evening of October 7, IKD delegates were invited to the Gala Dinner, which took place on board a large ship sailing along the Danube, with its royal castles and other sights on both banks of the river, especially beautiful in the evening and at night. Hungarian music and dance groups performed for the guests. For quite understandable reasons related to the war against Russian aggressors and the deaths of our Ukrainian citizens, we did not take an active part in this show, which was received with understanding and sympathy by the environment. For the same reason, we did not participate in the entertainment tour of Hungary on October 8.