Cocaine Route Programme Achievements So Far
A brochure outlining the activities and achievements of the Cocaine Route Programme so far is now available: CRP Brochure EN CRP Brochure FRA CRP Brochure ESP
Ghana blazing a trail in the fight against corruption
Ghana’s Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Woo has suspended seven of 12 High Court judges implicated in allegations of bribery stemming from a documentary made by an investigative journalist. Journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas says he has nearly 500 hours of video evidence on tape, showing judges alleging asking for bribes and demanding sex. His documentary, shown…
170 kg of drugs seized during a joint Operation targeting drug trafficking from Latin America to Europe via Africa
In the framework of the Airport Communication Project (AIRCOP) an operation targeting drug trafficking from Latin America to Europe via Africa has resulted in the seizure of nearly 170 kilogrammes of drugs worth an estimated EUR 10 million, as well as gold coins and stolen credit cards. During Operation Folosa, which involved 22 countries, law…
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West African Police Information System (WAPIS)
The WAPIS System
The WAPIS System
National platform of the West African Police Information System launched by INTERPOL in Ghana
The national platform of the West African Police Information System (WAPIS) was launched in Ghana on 29 September 2015. Attended by the INTERPOL Vice President for Africa, the ECOWAS Vice President, the European Union Ambassador to Ghana, Ghana’s Minister for the Interior as well as high-level authorities from Benin, Ghana, Mali, Mauritania, Namibia, Niger and…
West African Police Information System launched by INTERPOL
WAPIS, one of the components of the Cocaine Route Programme has launched the first electronic police information system in Mali as well as in Benin and Niger. The launch was attended by Mali’s Interior Minister, Général Sada Samaké, who emphasized its ‘internal security role’. Funded by the European Union (EU) and implemented by INTERPOL with…
New Study debunks the link between ivory poaching and terrorism
Over recent years there have been allegations that Al-Shabaab, the radical Somali Islamist group, is deriving considerable funds from elephant poaching and the ivory trade. Researchers from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) have examined the evidence and expose this as myth in a new study: ‘Illusion of Complicity.” There is little evidence of any…
Rising methamphetamine production point to gaps in the precursor control system in Mexico.
The number of methamphetamine laboratories dismantled by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has fallen from 12,049 in 2013 to 9,306 in 2014. Yet, because the levels of meth consumption are believed to have remained stable the agency believes that production has shifted across the border to Mexico. One of the reasons for this, according…