More efficient systems for police investigation, financial investigation in money laundering and social use of seized assets.
FIGHT AGAINST DRUG TRAFFICKING
COPOLAD III supports public policies that offer comprehensive solutions through a combination of public security initiatives, police investigation and the fight against illicit money and its laundering. The effectiveness of drug trafficking policies should not be measured solely by drug seizures or the number of arrests of people lower down the criminal chain, but by the state’s ability to cut off the economic flow of drug trafficking and to put seized assets to social use.
The fight against organised crime requires efforts to investigate its financial network, through international cooperation mechanisms between justice and security institutions. The aim is to prevent illegal profits from returning to the drug supply chain and making corruption, human trafficking or terrorism possible.
For this reason, the COPOLAD III Programme works with the Network of Anti-Drug Prosecutors of Ibero-America (RFAI) in the development of protocols or strengthens the capacities of public prosecutors’ offices to incorporate the gender perspective in investigations. For example, incorporating indicators to address trafficking victims in the investigation of drug trafficking crimes. It also collaborates with the Financial Action Task Force of Latin America (GAFILAT) and the Caribbean (GAFIC) to create technological exchange tools, good practice guides and standards to improve the exchange of information in the fight against drug trafficking. The countries also participate in training on topics that they themselves have identified as key, such as virtual assets, synthetic drugs or asset prevention measures.
2 IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS:
IILA (Organización Internacional Italo-Latinoamericana)
FIIAPP (Fundación Internacional y para Iberoamérica de Administración y Políticas Públicas).
