The SEACOP Special Response Group in the South Atlantic tops the headlines again by successfully preventing the arrival of a major drug shipment to Europe, with simultaneous operations in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Earlier this month, SEACOP and the COLIBRI project set up an Operational Coordination Centre in Montevideo, where they supervised an unprecedented…
Strengthen , Share 🫱🏽🫲🏻 and Strike💥 … again in the Caribbean ! From 22 April to 4 May 2024, SEACOP delivered a very successful Training of Trainers programme in Trinidad and Tobago targeted at 18 students from Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St Kitts, St Lucia, St Vincent and Trinidad and Tobago’s Maritime Intelligence…
Environmental crime constitutes a major element of the growth in serious criminal activity and is bound up with threats to global peace and security, while also providing a soft entry point into global illicit flows for traffickers. The trade is often highly organized and accompanied by state-led corruption, violence and widespread human rights abuses. All…
Key legal framework UN conventions ratified United Nations Convention against Corruption United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances African Union Treaties and Conventions The African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (Pelindaba Treaty) Narcotics laws Customs and Indirect Taxation Codes Dahir of 24 April 1954 to prohibit Kif Hemp Provision of the Penal…
Key legal framework UN conventions ratified United Nations Convention against Corruption United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children African…
On 7 March 2023, GIFP component COLIBRI organised the Global Feedback Meeting for Operation Rutilant. Over 150 participants attended online while the COLIBRI team moderated the meeting from the WCO headquarters in Brussels. This hybrid meeting was attended by administrations from COLIBRI partner countries that participated in operation Rutilant to include Customs, Police and civil…
The EU-funded project SEACOP V and the Ministry for the Public Service, Home Affairs Labour and Gender Affairs of St Lucia, on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding to pursue cooperation in the fight against illicit maritime trade. Represented by Minister Dr Virginia Albert-Poyotte, and SEACOP Regional Coordinator for the Caribbean, Karen Clarke, the event…
