USNS Spearhead will assist in security cooperation activities, maritime security, counter-narcotics trafficking and contingency operations, which include humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.
From January to the end of September 2013, Haitian National Police (HNP) agents arrested 15 kidnapping suspects, according to published reports. From October through the end of December, police captured 72 kidnapping suspects, a five-fold increase.
CENTSEC 2014 marked the first time the annual meeting of regional defense and public safety leaders focused on a single, multinational operation.
Dominican Republic to give Haitian officials access to several of its counter-narcotics initiatives.
Government successes in the VRAEM region follow earlier successful government counter-insurgency efforts against Shining Path in other parts of the country.
The security forces are working together to follow through on President Juan Orlando Hernández´s pledge of “zero tolerance” for crime.
The drug cartel is transporting drug shipments, usually cocaine, through Ecuador and on to Mexico, authorities said. The drug cartel then transports most of the cocaine to the United States or Canada.
Interior Minister Walter Albán Peralta said the new academy shows authorities are prepared to invest “whatever is necessary” to combat international drug trafficking and other illicit activities – such as extortion, kidnapping, and arms smuggling – that organized crime groups engage in.
These measures are particularly timely since Ecuador is hosting several games in the Copa Libertadores competition, in which teams from the Americas compete.
Mine warfare is the knowledge and skill necessary to use sea mines and annul their effects when employed as an instrument of aggression. Its operation is divided into undermining (launch of the mines) and mining countermeasures (destruction of launched mines or of those pending launch).
Honduran security forces are waging a fierce battle with the Espinoza organized crime group in San Luis, a small village in a mountainous region of the department of Comayagua.
High-ranking officials and representatives of the police forces of Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Brazil and Colombia met recently in Quito, Ecuador, to exchange ideas on the best ways to fight crime while protecting human rights.
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