Brenda Yufeh
4 November 2009
The 10th session of Central Africa Police Chiefs Committee begins today with security and cross-border crimes on the limelight.
Deliberations that will inexorably reinforce cooperation between various police forces as well properly address the security and developmental challenges staring the governments and peoples of Central Africa Sub-Region begins today in Yaounde as the 10th session of Central Africa Police Chiefs Committee (CAPCCO) meets for the second consecutive year in Cameroon. Issues tackled by technical experts of CAPCCO will undergo deliberations today by the Central Africa Police Chiefs for onward submission to the 10th forum of Ministers responsible for security questions in the Sub-Region which will begin tomorrow.
CAPCCO delegates from Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad and Sao Tome and Principe will delve into aspects that touch the security in the sub-region in a bid to improve their efficiency in the area of preventing and fighting against trans-border crime in the sub-region. That is why the agenda of the police heads focuses on cross-border crime, state of cooperation amongst police in the sub-region, harmonisation of the system of registration of vehicles within the sub-region, new challenges of criminality, traffic of ivory and the report of Operation GBANDA which was set up during the last session of CAPCCO to fight the importation of stolen second-hand vehicles into Central Africa.
It should be recalled that during the last session of CAPCCO it was concluded that the police forces in the Central Africa Region will harmonise legislation on criminal matters, plan, organise and supervise joint or simultaneous police operations in the region as well as ensure permanent updating of the International Organisation of Criminal Police (INTERPOL) database. Given that the current meeting is 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), the current session of CAPCCO will certainly be tilted towards security challenges in the region. The 10th session of Central Africa Police Chiefs Committee and the forum of Ministers responsible for security questions in the Sub-Region will also witness the official inauguration of the International Organisation of Criminal Police (INTERPOL) office in Yaounde.
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