A week of mentoring for the Joint Maritime Control Unit of Barbados 🇧🇧 kicked off yesterday in Bridgetown. Aimed at strengthening the capacities of the JMCU personnel, the mentoring follows a 5-day training course delivered last week by SEACOP’s Deputy Regional Coordinator for the Caribbean Benoit Verniquet. “We started last week at the Coastguard Training Centre at HMBS…
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…
23/05 EUROPOL’ s operation: Nearly 40 tonnes of counterfeit cigarettes were seized in France. The investigation, involving several customs services and the assistance of the French network of customs attachés (especially in Dubai), led to the seizure of 40 tonnes of counterfeit cigarettes in the Marseille and Paris regions. 23/05 Trafficking of Illegal Firearms Severely…
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…
09/05 Interpol Finds Organized Crime’s Fingerprints on Gold Mining. Interpol’s new analysis for law enforcement, the international police force, shows “the clear involvement of organised criminals in illegal gold mining, taking advantage of surging gold prices and leaving severe environmental degradation in their wake.” 10/05 Organised crime in Kenya and new technology. The advancement of…
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…
