At the end of last month, SEACOP held its 2nd Maritime Intelligence Training for Argentinean officers in Buenos Aires 🇦🇷.
Experts from the Colombian Navy, the Brazilian Federal Police and SEACOP’s Latin America Coordinator, Alfredo Diaz Sanchez, focused the activity on intelligence gathering in the maritime and river environment, analysed recently detected criminal patterns in the region and raised awareness of new threats arising from the presence of new drug trafficking groups working in coordination with local groups.
“The gathering of intelligence and the exchange of information must be effectively directed towards joint operations that promote criminal investigations that end with the seizure of narcotic substances, the capture and subsequent conviction of the criminal structures involved in the different countries,” stressed Alfredo Díaz, pointing out that “for this reason, the SEACOP V project focuses on the creation of the necessary capacities for this”.
On the last day, a training workshop on controlled deliveries and international #cooperation was organised, led by the Anti-Drug Prosecutor of the Procunar of Argentina, Mr. Matías Álvarez, who is the Coordinator of the Network of Anti-Drug Prosecutors of Ibero-America.
The closing ceremony was preceded by important local authorities, such as the Undersecretary of Criminal Investigation, Mr. Marcelo Leyria and the National Director of Drug Trafficking, Mr. Adrián Moro of the National Ministry of Security.
