United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Central America and the Caribbean

Combatting drugs and transnational organized crime at sea through interagency cooperation in Barbados

From 7 to 9 July 2021, UNODC GMCP and the Regional Security System (RSS) conducted an inter-agency tabletop exercise aimed to strengthen responses against transnational organized crime at sea for Barbados law-enforcement officers. The exercise simulated actions of all the key national stakeholders, from the initial communication and information on the suspected activities, to the decision-making processes, and including the response/tracking, apprehension, processing, and prosecution of the perpetrators with a view to analyze the effectiveness of maritime law-enforcement responses to TOC at sea.