SEACOP kicks off its 4th coordination committee in FIIAPP’s HQ in Madrid, Spain where the team will discuss the upcoming progress report, activities conducted over the past year, and implementation progress.The meeting also seeks to review and assess the action’s strategic orientation for the upcoming period. Over the past six months, SEACOP has delivered a wide range…
St Vincent and the Grenadines Kingstown, 2 June 2022 – Dr. The Honourable Ralph Everard Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the EU-funded action SEACOP, in order to pursue cooperation in the fight against illicit maritime trade. During an official signing ceremony held in…
SEACOP holds regional Maritime Intelligence Unit course in Barbados “It takes a network to beat a network.” These are the closing words of B.S., an intelligence officer from Trinidad and Tobago’s Transnational Organized Crime Unit (TOCU), as he presents his findings to his peers on Friday 20 May in Barbados. “Transnational organised crime will always…
Lima, 25 May 2022 – The EU-funded project SEACOP V and the National Commission for Drug-free Life and Development (DEVIDA) of Peru, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to pursue cooperation in the fight against illicit maritime trade. Represented by Ricardo Antonio Soberón Garrido, Executive President of DEVIDA, and SEACOP Project Director Dominique Bucas, and in the presence…
On Friday 20th May, Barbados renewed its commitment to the fight against illicit maritime trafficking through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of National Security and the EU-funded SEACOP project. In the presence of the EU Ambassador to the Eastern Caribbean, the Eastern Caribbean States, the OECS and CARICOM/CARIFORUM, H.E. Malgorzata Wasilewska, the…
The EU Ambassador to the Eastern Caribbean, H.E. Malgorzata Wasilewska on Friday closed a weeklong regional course dedicated to members of Maritime Intelligence Units of the region. Organised by the EU-funded project SEACOP in Barbados, the course was attended by 15 law enforcement personnel from nine different agencies in Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Montserrat…
On Wednesday 18 May 2022, a MoU on the collaboration to fight illicit maritime trafficking was officially signed in Trinidad and Tobago. Minister of National Security, Fitzgerald Hinds, met with Head of Delegation of the European Union, Peter Cavendish, as well ad SEACOP Project Director, Dominique Bucas to formalise the continued cooperation of Trinidad and…
The training, search of 1st level commercial vessels, started yesterday morning in Praia, Cape Verde Led by two experts from the Portuguese Judicial Police, it brings together participants from the island of Santiago (Praia) and the island of Sao Vicente (Mindelo). A total of 16 officers from the judicial police, maritime police, customs, port authority…
Last week, SEACOP supported Argentina’s Joint Maritime Control Unit in seizing a cocaine shipment to Europe. On 28 April, the JMCU team in Argentina intercepted around 78 kilograms in the Port of Zarate that were intended to be sent to Europe via Belgium. The modality used by the criminal organisation was the “gancho ciego”, also known…
