On 5 and 6 August 2024, the Eastern & Southern Africa Commission on Drugs (ESACD) held a regional consultation meeting on cannabis regulation in Maputo, Mozambique. The event, opened by Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi, aimed to guide regional drug policy reform in light of the global shift away from the criminalisation of cannabis. Participants included…
06.08.24 – ‘Your reign of terror must end’: Premier Alan Winde’s warning to organised crime syndicates after eight suspects killed. Western Cape Premier Alan Winde has welcomed police action in swiftly foiling an alleged cash-in-transit heist that left eight suspects dead. The intelligence-driven operation took place on Monday in Town Two, Khayelitsha. The team comprising…
During the scoping mission conducted in April 2024 to Ecuador, several challenges had been identified: Thus, from 22 – 26 July 2024, COLIBRI organised a national foundation training that would address these gaps by providing field agents with the knowledge and basic techniques to efficiently plan control operations and monitor general aviation. Furthermore, knowledge of…
With over 260 participants from 24 countries, the last session of our ‘Threats and Case Studies’, titled “International Seminar on Emerging Dynamics of Maritime Organised Crime” was a resounding success ! Held on 29 July 2024, the webinar witnessed an unprecedented turnout for the following presentations and interventions:1. DIAGNOSIS OF DRUG TRAFFICKING IN THE AMERICAS AND…
23.07.24 – ‘Ring and bring’ drug dealers given jail sentences. A gang who “flooded” three communities with heroin and crack cocaine have been given prison sentences of more than 14 years. Ringleader Josh Ashton and “workers” Logan Day, Billy Alexander and Adie Cliff ran a “ring and bring” drugs line supplying Conisbrough, Denaby and Mexborough,…
On 18 July 2024, ECO-SOLVE hosted a strategic expert dialogue to address the increasingly urgent and pressing issues resulting from environmental crimes. The event gathered a diverse group of experts to discuss how to strengthen multilateral responses to environmental crime, focusing on the intersection of organised crime, environmental degradation, as well as security, development, and…
On 11th July 2024, the EU-ACT II Project and the European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA) held a working session to discuss collaboration for a strategic synthetic drugs assessment in the Middle East and North Africa as well as further cooperation, including formalising the participation of EUDA in the framework of EU-ACT II and vice versa.…
Within the framework of the EU-funded SEACOP project, the innovative GRES-Atlantico-SUR initiative has achieved impressive results since its inception. In just one month, more than five tonnes of cocaine and one tonne of marijuana -among others- bound for Europe have been seized. The GRES-Atlantico-SUR, which brings together Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Senegal, is part…
After two intense weeks of training (8-19 July), future SEACOP instructors from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay are now ready to deliver courses in Maritime Intelligence. Pedagogical and didactic methodology were exposed to the participants so they can prepare, organise and deliver their own training courses on various maritime domain…
