Brenda Yufeh
3 November 2009
They are currently meeting in Yaounde within the 10th session of Central Africa Police Chiefs Committee.
Prelude to the 10th session of the Central African of Police Chiefs Committee (CAPCCO), concomitantly with the 10th forum of Ministers responsible for security questions in the Sub-Region, holding in Yaounde from November 3-5, technical experts within the police force yesterday in Yaounde began brainstorming on how to better address security challenges in the Central African Sub-Region. Opening the experts' commission yesterday in Yaounde, the Delegate General for National Security, Emmanuel Edou, who also doubles as the acting president of the Central African Police Chiefs Committee, said with the increasing crime wave affecting the CEMAC Sub-Region, there is need to improve cooperation between police services within the region, with the aim of reinforcing their efficiency in the area of prevention and the fight against trans-border crime in the sub-region.
Emmanuel Edou said the CAPCCO meetings are holding within a context characterised by the growing increase in new forms of trans-border crime, facilitated by the ever-growing evolution of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). He noted that they are meeting in an environment characterised by the massive importation of vehicles stolen in various parts of the world, the trafficking and sale of illicit firearms, cyber crime, the rise of the phenomenon of highway robbery, the trafficking of narcotics and the proliferation of illicit and counterfeit drugs. According to the Delegate General for National Security, only vigorous international police cooperation can contribute in curbing these ills in the sub-region. That is why Emmanuel Edou lauded the presence of the delegation from CEMAC and that from the International Organisation of Criminal Police (INTERPOL) saying he is confident that the experts will not only examine new criminal challenges but will come up with policies to fight crime.
The experts will identify new forms of criminality, seek new ways to disseminate regular information within the Sub-Region on different crime strategies especially with those who evade prisons, set-up new regional strategy to fight crime, harmonise the system of matriculations of vehicles within the sub-region, propose the programming in 2010 of the police operation that focuses on how to look for stolen vehicles as well as examine the state of technical and scientific police in the sub-regions and the national policy on criminal files.
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