Police Cooperation by Ann-Marie Alleyne Alleyne 2013 Police Cooperation Mexico

Police Cooperation by

Ann-Marie Alleyne

Alleyne 2013 Police Cooperation Mexico

o Background of Police Coop in the Caribbean

o Challenges

o Levels of Police Coop

o Recommendations/Way Ahead or Forward (your choice and decision)


High Crime: UNODC/WB 2007, UNHDR 2012

Rising Murder Rates: UNODC 2011 Homicide report

Drugs and Illegal Arms Trafficking: UNODC/WB 2007 & Ivelaw Griffith’s “ Geonarcotics milieu”

New and Emerging Threats: Gangs, Human Trafficking, Terrorism and Cyber security


Geostrategic Implications Major Drug Transshipment Zone

Porous BordersIslands & Multiple Island StatesUnsecure CoastlinesSparsely Populated


Large Police per capita ratios but other challenges exists:

POLICE FORCES: Little use of technology and IT, poorly trained and equipped, low wages, low capacity and high demands due to lack of defense forces in some countries

SOCIAL ISSUES: Low standards of living, higher cost of living, low literacy levels, higher unemployment


Levels of Co-operationHEMISPHERE TRAINING US GOV

•FBI•SECRET SERVICE

REGIONAL/CARICOM

POLICE - POLICE

OPERATIONAL

LEGAL

JRCCRIFC

STANDING COMMITTEE OF COPS

ARREST WARRANTS

TRAINING POLICE STAFF COLLEGEREGIONAL POLICE TRAINING CENTRE

NATIONAL SECURITY TRAINING ACADEMY

SUB-REGIONAL/OECS

REGIONAL SECURITY SERVICE

GOV’T – GOV’TGRENADA - IVAN 2004

GUYANA – LUSIGNAN & BARTICA 2008

ASSOCIATION OFCARIBBEAN COMMISSIONERS

CANADARCMP

TRAINING & OPERATIONS

ASSISTANCE

EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION

Training U.S. Gov. (FBI, SECRET SERVICE, F.L.E.T.C.) Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Organization of American States (OAS)Latin American Countries (Colombia/Mexico)

Information SharingAdvance Passenger Information System (APIS)INTERPOL

Technical & Diplomatic CooperationSecondments to Hemispeheric Institutions (OAS.CICTE/DPS)Police Attaches: MIA, N.Y., D.C.


Training• Police Staff College, REDTRAC (Jamaica), • Regional Police Training Centre(Barbados),• National Security Training Academy and Police Training Academy

(Trinidad & Tobago)

Legal & Technical• Regional Arrest Warrant Treaty

Operational• IMPACS JRCC, RIFC• Watch Lists• Witness Protection


Regional Security Services (RSS)

Based in Barbados and for smaller OECS countries

Training: For Law Enforcement including Police Operations: Joint operations on Law Enforcement issues

*Improved capacity of small Police Forces to deal with crime and security issues


State to State assistance on Police matters

Restoring law and order in Grenada after Hurricane IVAN 2004

Caribbean countries assistance to Guyana after Lusignan and Bartica incidents 2008


Association of Caribbean Commissioners of Police

(ACCP)

Secretariat based in Barbados

Sharing of information trends and best practices among

Chiefs of Police

AGMs in May each year 2011 Antigua, 2012 Bahamas,

2013 Bermuda.


IN MANY CASES THE PROBLEM REQUIRES A RESPONSE THAT TRANSCENDS NATIONAL AND EVEN REGIONAL BOUNDARIES, EG DEPORTING COUNTRIES SHOULD FUND REINTEGRATIVE PROGRAMS FOR DEPORTEES LIVING IN THEIR COUNTRIES AS A CHILD- DUE TO THE FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS OF C´BEAN COUNTRIES.

C´BEAN IS TRANSHIPMENT POINT- THERE SHOULD BE STRONG DEMAND REDUCTION IN CONSUMER COUNTRIES.


CRIME IS A SOCIAL AND DEVELOPMENT ISSUE-THEREFORE –NEED FOR GREATER INPUTS FROM GOVTS, CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS AND C´BEAN EXPERTS AS A TEAM TO WORK ON VIABLE SOLUTIONS.

NEED FOR MORE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS.

NEED FOR COMPREHENSIVE YOUTH HEALTH PROGRAMS. (EARLY IDENTIFICATION OF AT RISK CHILD- INTERVENTION PROGRAMS.


MORE COLLABORATION BET. LATIN AMERICA AND THE C´BEAN. (NOTED SUCCESS OF COLUMBIA IN THE REDUCTION OF THEIR HOMICIDES. LESSONS LEARNT)

SOME C´BEAN COUNTRIES NEED TO URGENTLY IMPROVE THEIR CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. (LONG DELAYS ON MATTERS, PROCESSES BURDENSOME). NEED FOR GUN COURTS AND SWIFTER JUSTICE.


Thank You

Ann Marie Alleyne Acting Deputy Commissioner of Police Operations

Trinidad and Tobago Police Service

Police Administration Building

Edward and Sackville, Port of Spain

1(868) 627-9836 (office)

[email protected] (email)


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Police Cooperation by Ann-Marie Alleyne Alleyne 2013 Police Cooperation Mexico