Enhancing Port Security Through Information Sharing: The RECOPORT-ESA 25 Exercise
Sharing critical port security information is essential to ensuring safe and efficient port operations while effectively responding to emerging security challenges. Ports must work closely with information-sharing organizations, leveraging secure platforms to exchange vital information. Additionally, identifying security gaps, clearly defining roles and responsibilities, and implementing measures to deter, detect, and respond to illegal activities […]
CRIMARIO at the EU & Latin America and the Caribbean bi-regional seminar on peace, security and defence challenges
On September 17, 2024, civilian and military experts from 35 European Union (EU), Latin American, and Caribbean (LAC) countries, along with key decision-makers, gathered in Cartagena, Colombia, for the Fourth Seminar on Security and Defense. The seminar, organized by the European External Action Service (EEAS), the European Security and Defence College (ESDC), and the Spanish […]
Mauritius and maritime regional centres of Seychelles & Madagascar conduct a simulation exercise
Olivier Bézier, CRIMARIO Training and Capacity Building component manager, organized and conducted a Command Post Exercise (CPX) focused in drug trafficking to the primary benefit of Mauritius with the participation of RMIFC in Antananarivo and RCOC in Mahe. From 26 to 30 August, the teams were given a drug case study in western Indian Ocean, […]
UN anti-drug body to return to Seychelles
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) will reestablish its presence in Seychelles as of April, while the island nation will increase cooperation with the U.N. body, said the office’s new Eastern Africa representative. Amado Philip de Andrés made these statements on Friday after a courtesy call to Seychelles’ president, Danny Faure, at […]
CTF 150 nets an enormous drugs haul in the Indian Ocean
International assets from Combined Task Force (CTF) 150, part of the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF), teamed up in a counter drugs operation in the Indian Ocean on January 24, 2018, seizing 834 bags of heroin weighing 915 kilograms. This is the fourth confiscation of drugs in recent months by CTF 150, currently under Australian leadership […]