Pacific Patrol Boat Project – Intelligence and Exhibit Handling Workshop

  The Pacific Islands Chiefs of Police (PICP) Secretariat has been working on the Pacific Patrol Boat Project (PPBP) over the past few years. Throughout this work, the main focus of the project has been to promote greater cooperation and use of the Pacific Patrol Boats for wider law enforcement purposes including to address the issue of transnational crime. 
 
 The PICP Secretariat began its involvement with this project in 2006 by raising awareness of the Pacific patrol boats amongst the various border agencies. During the second year of the project, the Secretariat drafted transnational crime enforcement guides which have now been included in the updated operations manual for the Patrol Boats. 

 

In 2009, the focus of the project was the development and roll-out of an “Intelligence and Exhibit Handling” Workshop aimed at police-led patrol boats. This workshop was piloted in Samoa in July 2009 during their maritime law enforcement (MLE) training. The roll-out of this workshop was endorsed to continue in 2010. The workshop was developed in consultation with the Pacific Transnational Crime Coordination Centre (PTCCC) and the Australian Defence Force to be run in conjunction with the MLE training.  

This workshop was developed to strengthen the reporting protocols between the Patrol Boats, relevant intelligence teams and the Pacific Transnational Crime Network (PTCN), via the PTCCC, local Transnational Crime Unit (TCU) or Intelligence Units. The workshop also highlights the ‘Enforcement Guide for Transnational Crime’ written by the Secretariat in 2008.  

The workshop consists of up to one day’s training. It highlights the need for a regional approach to address the issue of transnational crime through the increased cooperation and sharing of information. The workshop has currently been run in Samoa, Kiribati and Vanuatu. 

 

March 4th, 2010 in Pacific Patrol Boats