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…
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…
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…
