Sofia hosted the last annual meeting of the police forum of the Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe on November 8 2007. The Stability Pact police forum initiative is to be replaced by a new regional police association, which would be hosted in Sofia, a Interior Ministry media statement said.

The Stability Pact police initiative meeting was opened by Marijo Rosic, co-chair of the police forum and Bulgaria's Interior Minister Rumen Petkov.
A welcoming speech was held by director National Police Service Valentin Petrov and president of the South-East Europe Police Chiefs Association (SEPCA).

In 2008, SEPCA would succeed the current Stability Pacts police forum initiative.
In its annual meeting in Pula in June 2007, SEPCA adopted its legal statutes and registered the association in Sofia under Bulgarian civil law. Petrov was elected as SEPCA's president. The secretariat of the association would be set up in Sofia, the media statement said.

Participants in the meeting were Pact member states delegations from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Moldova, Kosovo, Austria, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and Great Britain, as well as representatives of Europol, Interpol, SEPCA and other international organisations.

Topics of the forum included SEPCA's role in ensuring security, discussions on developments in security and integration systems in South-East Europe, analysis of implemented regional project within the framework of the SECI Centre, among others.