This month (3-20 September 2024), SEACOP organised a follow up of the Maritime Intelligence Unit (MIU) Training of Trainers training held in Abidjan in July 2024. 💡 During the Abidjan ToT, MIU officers of the 8 SEACOP supported countries in West Africa (Benin 🇧🇯 Cabo Verde 🇨🇻 Cote d’Ivoire 🇨🇮 The Gambia 🇬🇲Ghana 🇬🇭 Senegal…
SEACOP-trained teams of the port of Montevideo have achieved a remarkable seizure at the end of September 2024. Authorities of Uruguay reported the arrest of several people and simultaneous searches in Montevideo houses following the discovery of a fishing boat with a ton of cocaine, about to leave for the Atlantic.“The operation was carried out…
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.…
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…
This week, SEACOP 12 personnel from the Joint Maritime Control Unit (JMCU) of Montserrat received a comprehensive training in both theoretical and practical aspects of maritime control and rummage, at the Police/Law Enforcement Complex, with additional hands-on training aboard the patrol vessel Heliconia Star. Led by our dedicated team of trainers, the training was notably…
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…
Last week, following the West African and Latin American editions, SEACOP conducted a Training of Trainers for Maritime Intelligence Officers from 10 countries of the Caribbean region. Held from August 12-16, 2024 in Barbados, this regional activity aimed to enhance the technical and instructional capacities of Maritime Intelligence Units (MIUs) members across the Caribbean. “This…
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…
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…
