Daniel Potolincă is a Border Police Officer and Advanced Level Document Officer – Trainer at the School for Initial and Continuous Training of Border Police Staff in Iași, Romania.

With more than 20 years of professional experience in border management, he specializes in travel document examination, document fraud detection, identity verification, impostor detection and second-line border checks, combining extensive operational experience with the design and delivery of competency-based training programmes for border guards at national and international level.

Since 2026, Daniel has been involved in the design, development and delivery of the Advanced Level Document Officer (ALDO) training programme for Frontex Partnership Academies, contributing to session plan development, training materials and specialized training in advanced travel document examination, document fraud detection and identity verification.

His professional activity also includes cooperation with international organisations, including the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and EUBAM, contributing to capacity-building initiatives, training development and Train-the-Trainer programmes for border authorities in the region.

Daniel is also the Coordinator of FRONTLINERS – International Conference on Fraud in Travel Documents and Documents of Trafficked and Stolen Vehicles and the author of several scientific publications in the fields of travel document security, forensic document examination and border management.

At FRONTLINERS 2026, Daniel will bring his operational, training and document examination expertise to the conference, contributing to the exchange of advanced practices in document fraud detection, identity verification and frontline border control.

We are proud to welcome Daniel Potolincă to FRONTLINERS 2026.