Project Funded by European Union Cocaine Route Programme

Strengthening criminal investigation and criminal justice cooperation along the cocaine route

in Latin America, the Caribbean and West Africa (2016-2020)

COSP 2017 Special Event:

Integrity Of Counter Narcotics And Justice Sector Institutions

Tofik Murshudlu

Chief- Implementation Support Section

Strengthening criminal investigation and criminal justice cooperation

along the cocaine route in Latin America, the Caribbean and West Africa

Overview

• Global Cocaine Trafficking

• About CRIMJUST

• CRIMJUST Implementation

• Institutional Integrity and Risk of Corruption

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along the cocaine route in Latin America, the Caribbean and West Africa

Global Cocaine Trafficking

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along the cocaine route in Latin America, the Caribbean and West Africa

Introducing CRIMJUST

Strengthening criminal investigation and criminal justice cooperation

along the cocaine route in Latin America, the Caribbean and West Africa

CRIMJUST Objective

The overall objective is to contribute to fighting organized crime in general, and drug trafficking in

particular, along the cocaine route(s) in Latin America, the Caribbean (LAC) and West Africa (WA).

Strengthening criminal investigation and criminal justice cooperation

along the cocaine route in Latin America, the Caribbean and West Africa

Participating Countries

West Africa

● Cabo-Verde

● Ghana

● Guinea-Bissau

● Associated Country:

Nigeria

Latin America and

the Caribbean

● Dominican Republic

● Panama

● Associated Countries:

Argentina, Brazil,

Colombia, Ecuador, and

Peru

Strengthening criminal investigation and criminal justice cooperation

along the cocaine route in Latin America, the Caribbean and West Africa

CRIMJUST Pillars

• Capacity Building: strengthening the capacities of criminal justice actors (law enforcement agents, prosecutors and judges)

• Regional and Interregional Cooperation: fostering interregional cooperation between criminal justice institutions

• Institutional Integrity: enhancing institutional integrity and accountability of criminal justice institutions when dealing with OC/drug trafficking cases.

Strengthening criminal investigation and criminal justice cooperation

along the cocaine route in Latin America, the Caribbean and West Africa

The Project’s Key Elements

�Inter-regional approach to tackle OC-related threats

�Holistic approach

�Building synergies

�Post seizures investigation

�Enhanced integrity and accountability of law enforcement and the judiciary

Strengthening criminal investigation and criminal justice cooperation

along the cocaine route in Latin America, the Caribbean and West Africa

CRIMJUST

Implementation

Strengthening criminal investigation and criminal justice cooperation

along the cocaine route in Latin America, the Caribbean and West Africa

CRIMJUST Implementation Status

Strengthening criminal investigation and criminal justice cooperation

along the cocaine route in Latin America, the Caribbean and West Africa

OPERATION LIONFISH III

Strengthening criminal investigation and criminal justice cooperation

along the cocaine route in Latin America, the Caribbean and West Africa

Institutional

Integrity and Risk

of Corruption

Strengthening criminal investigation and criminal justice cooperation

along the cocaine route in Latin America, the Caribbean and West Africa

Institutional Integrity and Risk of

Corruption

Outcome 3 of the CRIMJUST project supports, in

particular, counter-narcotic units and other relevant

stakeholders in the criminal justice chain to identify

corruption-related risks and develop measures to

strengthen integrity and accountability.

Strengthening criminal investigation and criminal justice cooperation

along the cocaine route in Latin America, the Caribbean and West Africa

Institutional Integrity and Risk of

Corruption• Increased effectiveness of counter narcotics units,

resulting in more seizures and ultimately cases,

would put drug-traffickers and organized crime

groups under pressure to react.

• Likely scenario: Increased efforts of OC to infiltrate

the units, threaten officers and resort to bribery.

Strengthening criminal investigation and criminal justice cooperation

along the cocaine route in Latin America, the Caribbean and West Africa

Measures to enhance Institutional Integrity

& to prevent the Risk of Corruption⇒Ensure awareness of counter-narcotic units and their staff

of the risks

⇒Try to identify measure for resilience against the threat of corruption.

⇒Enhance institutional integrity and accountability within national criminal justice systems to reinforce their performance, and ensure effective investigations and prosecutions of drug-trafficking related offences.

⇒Reinfore mutual trust and confidence within and between target countries in Latin America and West Africa.

Project Funded by European Union Cocaine Route Programme

“Great things are done by a series of small things that are brought

together.” – Vincent Van Gogh

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