Sep92020

EU-ACT supports the drafting of the first official manual for drug addiction professionals in Tanzania

EU-ACT, Harm reduction, Programme and Projects News, Publication, Tanzania

EU-ACT is supporting the drug demand reduction policy in Tanzania in partnership with the Drug Control and Enforcement Authority (DCEA), the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MoHCDGEC), Universities and Civil Society Organisations. The project is supporting the development of the first official training manual for drug addiction professionals under the framework…

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Sep92020

CRIMJUST and AIRCOP join forces for the delivery of an ethic and integrity course in West Africa

AIRCOP, CRIMJUST, Integrity, Programme and Projects News, Publication, West Africa

From the 19th to the 21st August 2020, the CRIMJUST and AIRCOP teams organised the delivery of a series of training course on ethics and integrity for law enforcement officers forming the Joint Airport Interdiction Task Force in West Africa, including Cabo Verde, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau and Nigeria where the two projects operate. The training focused…

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Sep92020

SEACOP in the Caribbean keeps yielding success!

Jamaica, Marijuana, Programme and Projects News, Publication, SEACOP, Seizure, Trinidad and Tobago

The units in Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica supported by the SEACOP project intercepted a container after it left the Port of Spain port and discovered 948 kgs of marijuana with a street value of TT$94 Million. Six suspects have been arrested. The container originated from Jamaica. This seizure represents another significant result for the…

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Jul312020

COLIBRI launches its online training programme

COLIBRI, Cooperation, General Aviation, Programme and Projects News, Publication, Trafficking, Uruguay, World Customs Organisation

Successful implementation of the first COLIBRI National Online Training Course in Uruguay between 20-31 July 2020 The COLIBRI Project is designed to improve coordination and information sharing in order to develop the capacities of customs officials and their partners in the fight against organized crime and illicit trafficking, to strengthen the rule of law and…

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Jul62020

The AIRCOP network in Latin America and the Caribbean keeps yielding outstanding results!

AIRCOP, Airport, Barbados, Cocaine, Cooperation, Firearms, GIFP, Programme and Projects News, Publication, Seizure

Although the COVID-19 pandemic has drastically affected air traffic worldwide, the AIRCOP network remains attentive and operational. In June 2020, several of the AIRCOP JAITFs in collaboration with partners and beneficiaries in Latin America and the Caribbean intercepted multiple illicit commodities that included: 95 kg of cannabis from six different and independent seizures made by…

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Jun262020

CRIMJUST training courses on “specialised controlled deliveries”

Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, CRIMJUST, Ecuador, Panama, Programme and Projects News, Publication, Seizure, Trafficking, Uruguay

CRIMJUST, one of the component projects of the Global Illicit Flows Programme of the European Union, in collaboration with the Iberoamerican Network of Anti-drug Prosecutors (Red de Fiscales Antidroga de Iberoamérica) successfully implemented the first two of a series of four training courses on specialised controlled delivery. Designed to tackle transnational drug trafficking the training…

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Jun262020

Latest activities implemented by EU-ACT

EU-ACT, Financial investigations, Georgia, Money laundering, Programme and Projects News, Publication, Ukraine

EU-ACT in Ukraine: Successful online webinar on financial investigations Project EU-ACT, a component project of the Global Illicit Flows Programme, successfully implemented a two-day webinar on 16 and 17 June 2020 on the topic “Improving parallel financial investigations for law enforcement agencies in Ukraine”. The event, that brought together over 120 participants representing all law…

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Apr202020

First year of implementation of COLIBRI

COLIBRI, Cooperation, General Aviation, GIFP, Programme and Projects News, World Customs Organisation

COLIBRI, the GIFP project with a special focus on general aviation The project “Monitoring and Controlling General Aviation along the cocaine route”, or COLIBRI, is a technical assistance and capacity-building programme part of the Global Illicit Flows Programme since its in inception in January 2019. It has been conceived to bring together the skills necessary…

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Feb182020

2020 kicked off with three GIFP project steering committees

Cooperation, CRIMJUST, ENACT, News, Programme and Projects News, SEACOP

CRIMJUST, ENACT and SEACOP, three initiatives of the Global Illicit Flows Programme, held their steering committees in Brussels, Belgium, respectively on 30 January, 12 and 13 February. The projects presented their respective latest achievements. It was also the forum for each of them to discuss the strategic directions for 2020. Partners and projects operating in…

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Feb142020

Full house at the ‘Crime at Sea’ event!

ENACT, Programme and Projects News, SEACOP, Seaport infrastructure

  The Crime at Sea event took place on 12 February 2020, and was held at the External Cooperation Infopoint in Brussels. Bringing together over 70 participants, the event aimed to discuss the West African coastal threats and the European responses. Experts, partners and representatives of the ENACT and SEACOP projects, part of the Global…

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