SEACOP Newsletter – January 2025
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SEACOP GRES PORT – November 2024 Newsletter
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Cocaine Seizure: 1420 kg seized through SEACOP’s GRES-Ports Initiative
In a operation coordinated by SEACOP’s GRES-Ports initiative, the navies of Ecuador and Peru, the Police of Colombia and Panama Senan seized 1,420 kg of suspected cocaine aboard a container ship passing through Panama. “The shipment, originally bound for Russia, was intercepted thanks to thorough collaboration among port authorities from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Panama.…
GRES PORTS first operational meeting kicks off with SEACOP
From 11 to 14 November 2024, the Special Response Group – GRES PUERTOS initiative held its first operational meeting at the Port of Callao, bringing together operational and strategic focal points from Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Colombia, and Peru. With the objective of enhancing information exchange and conducting joint operations, this initiative has taken a significant…
Over 2,000kg of Cocaine Seized in SEACOP-supported Anti-Drug Operations in Peru
In the last week of August, Peruvian authorities from DIRANDRO, SUNAT, and the Navy, in collaboration with the SEACOP-trained team, achieved two significant anti-drug operations, seizing more than 2000 kilograms of cocaine. These operations were conducted during a narcotics search training on vessels, facilitated by the Technical Interventions Task Force (GOIT) of the Spanish Police.…
Risk Profiling of Vessels: SEACOP-trained trainers in Brazil , Peru 🇵🇪 deliver local courses
On August 27th, trainers from Brazil Federal Police delivered an intensive session on risk profiling of vessels and key maritime routes, sharing their expertise with local colleagues as part of their efforts to fight drug trafficking at sea. Meanwhile, on August 26-29, SEACOP trainer from DIRANDRO, Peru, was chosen by DEVIDA to conduct a training…
SEACOP VI launches series of Workshops on Illicit Drug Trafficking for New Trainers
On 23 August 2024, SEACOP began its new series of Workshops on Illicit Drug Trafficking for Latin American countries and the Dominican Republic. This marks an important milestone, where each of the local SEACOP trainers—who were trained last July in Argentina— will begin delivering training on illicit maritime trafficking within their own countries. “In just…
SEACOP supports 700Kg cocaine seizure in the Pacific
On 24th July, a major drug interdiction operation was successfully carried out at the Port of Callao, Peru in a coordinated effort involving Peru’s DIRANDRO, Mexico’s Marine Secretariat, with the full support of SEACOP Authorities seized more than 700 kilograms of cocaine hidden within a container of scrap metal. The drug trafficking organisation had attempted…
SEACOP Training of Trainers on Maritime Intelligence ends in Latin America
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…
SEACOP/CRIMJUST deliver Joint Seminar on Integral Protection Against New Maritime Threats in Peru
Last week, two projects of the EU Global Illicit Flows Programme -SEACOP and CRIMJUST- joined forces to organise a seminar aimed at enhancing the capabilities of the Peruvian Maritime Intelligence Unit in Callao, Peru. Launched on Monday 13 May 2024, the seminar’s opening ceremony witnessed the participation of representatives from the National Port Authority, the…