Transcript Managing the Crime and Security Agenda Within the

MANAGING THE CRIME AND
SECURITY AGENDA WITHIN
THE CARIBBEAN
COMMUNITY (CARICOM)
Presented to the 34th Regular Session of CICAD
Montreal Canada 19 November 2003
By Col. F E Liverpool
Coordinator
Regional Drugs and Crime Control Programmes
CARICOM Secretariat
OUTLINE OF PRESENTATION
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Remind ourselves of the threat
 CARICOM’s response
 Describe the Management Structure to
manage our crime and security agenda
 Current Regional security initiatives
The Caribbean Region
as a Transit Zone
EUROPE
UNITED STATES
STORAGE AREA
PRODUCER COUNTRY
The A B C Narco-Trade Mark
REGIONAL TASK FORCE ON
CRIME AND SECURITY
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Mandate
– Examine the main causes of crime
– Recommendations for a coordinated response
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Composition
– Reps from Member States
– ACCP, RSS,CCLEC, CFATF, UWI and Sects.
– Chaired by TT
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Reported in July 2002
CRIME PREVENTION
STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK
Prevention – systematic
treatment of root causes
 Secondary Prevention - make
communities more resilient to
criminality
 Tertiary Prevention – Strengthening
institutions responsible for responding
to crime
 Primary
PRIMARY PREVENTION
 Progs
of poverty alleviation and
reintegration of marginalized
communities
 Review of the International Drug
Control Policies
SECONDARY PREVENTION
 Reducing
opportunities for crime
 National Crime Commissions
 Community Policing
TERTIARY PREVENTION
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Regional LE training strategy
Improved technology
Improved forensic sciences services
Equipping the Police Forces
Border strengthening - Regional Conference
Judicial institutional development
Prisons improvement
International Collaboration
REGIONAL DEMAND REDUCTION
STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK
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Surveillance, Research and
Development/Evaluation
 Policy Development and Advocacy
 Prevention and Education
 Treatment and Rehabilitation
 Programme Management and Coordination
POLICY FRAMEWORKA REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE
“We believe strongly that - while there will always be need
for security forces of some kind and regional security
arrangements - small countries like those in CARICOM and,
indeed in the wider Caribbean, must be active in promoting
a system of international security that no longer holds them
hostage to the vulnerability of smallest or jeopardizes the
development through the need for major military
expenditure.” (West Indian Commission in addressing
regional security)
Tools of Implementation
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“The tools to implement any international
strategy are coordinating and
implementing bodies with specific
mandates working within an agreed
framework and in which clear lines of
reporting are laid out”
MEETING THE CRIME & SECURITY THREAT
(ORGANOGRAM)
CONFERENCE
Int’l Bodies
UN/OAS/
EU etc
COFCOR
Sub-Cttee of
AGs & MNS
Joint Committee of AGs & MNS
CCS
Regional Law Enforcement Technical Committee
Regional Crime & Security Coord Secretariat
ACCP
CCS
CCLEC
IMMIG
CG
CFATF
RTCG
Operational Centres of NonCARICOM States
(US,UK,Dutch,French,DR,Cuba)
CARICOM Sub-Regional
Coord Centres
National Law Enforcement
Committee
National Joint
Headquarters
CURRENT INITIATIVES
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Regional Information/Intelligence Sharing
System
 Strengthening Border Security
 Implementing Community Policing and
Police Reform
 Regional Maritime Cooperation