Latin America and the Caribbean

COUNTRIES:

PRESENCE: Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Panama

PROGRAMMING: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Barbados, Belize, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, The Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay

OUR PRIORITIES

Tactical and operational level capacity building and regional standardization to effectively respond to threats at sea and rivers.
Effective investigation and prosecution to maritime crimes through greater cooperation at both national and regional levels to ensure legal finish of maritime crimes.
Advancing strategic and operational level cooperation through cross-border initiatives among countries that share maritime and riverine domains.
Identification and analysis of new maritime crime trends, threats and linkages for better preparedness and response.

2024 STATS

624 OFFICERS TRAINED

57 TRAININGS

106 WOMEN TRAINED

27 COUNTRIES SUPPORTED

DONORS

CANADA - NORWAY - UNITED STATES

TYPES OF MARITIME CRIME WE COUNTER

Crimes in the Fisheries Sector

Crimes that affect the Environment

Drug Trafficking

Human Trafficking and Smuggling of Migrants

Illicit trafficking of Nuclear materials

CARIBBEAN

Facilitated a ministerial level working group to address human security and resilience against Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) in the most affected coastal areas and fishermen communities in the Dominican Republic, leading to the development of concrete public policies to support the communities.
Supported the Interagency Task Force (IATF) among security agencies in Jamaica and The Bahamas to counter TOC at sea.
Supported Operation Poseidón 2025, led by Dominican Republic, designed and executed with Jamaica, The Bahamas and other regional partners.
Supported Exercise Event Horizon 2025, led by Jamaica, bringing together 11 countries, aiming to enhance operational coordination and collaboration, improve maritime operations, strengthen diplomatic ties and combat crimes in the Caribbean region.
Delivered two Visit, Boarding, Search and Seizure (VBSS) courses with focus on SOM/SOLAS operations delivered for officials from Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Guyana, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago at the UNODC-supported Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard (TTCG) Small Boats Training Center of Excellence in Port-of- Spain.
Supported the Caribbean Forum on Maritime Crime (CFMC) 2024, bringing together officers from Caribbean nations, including officials from Colombia, Ecuador and Panama, as well as embassies from Dominican Republic in Panama, The Bahamas and Trinidad and Tobago.
Inaugurated the Unmanned Systems Regional Training Center of Excellence in Nassau, The Bahamas, in partnership with the Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF). Supported training for eight Caribbean countries at the Center.
Supported Maritime Operations Center to Maritime Operations Center (MOC-to-MOC) coordination meetings for improved cooperation for countries in the South and North Caribbean.
Delivered two basic seamanship courses for officials of the Haitian Coast Guard (HGC) for the first time, kickstarting GMCP activities in Haiti.
Provided IT equipment to support the daily operations of the Haitian Coast Guard at their Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haïtien bases.
Delivered in-person training, as well as TruNarc and anti-narcotics kits, to the Mexican Navy SEMAR, the Dominican Republic Navy (ARD) and the Dominican Republic National Drug Control Department (DNCD), in partnership with UNODC Lab.
Supported the development of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Bahamas and Dominican Republic.
Facilitated a technical-level meeting and tabletop exercise to promote cooperation for the ratification and operationalization of the San Jose Treaty in the Caribbean.

LATIN AMERICA

112 regional intelligence exchanges between investigators and prosecutors from Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Panama leading to support delivered to 60 cases related to maritime trafficking, as well as the opening of six new cases in these countries.
Over 500kg of cocaine seized through provision of specialized diving equipment and training to support the establishment of three diving teams operating along the Brazilian coast that seek to combat drug trafficking in ports through hull contamination.
Delivered cross-training on public security diving and hull searches for officials in Cabo Verde, Guinea Bissau, Nigeria and Senegal.
Facilitated transatlantic operational meetings between Brazil and Cabo Verde, Guinea Bissau, Nigeria and Senegal.
Supported exchange of agreements for intelligence cooperation to enhance operations between law enforcement agencies in the tri-border area between Brazil, Colombia and Peru.
Facilitated operational meetings between Brazil, Colombia and Peru to strengthen regional law enforcement cooperation in the Amazon River and tri-border area.
Delivered international riverine training at the Centro de Integração e Aperfeiçoamento em Polícia Ambiental (CIAPA) in the Amazon for Brazil, Colombia, Mozambique and Peru.
Delivered tactical equipment to the Brazilian Federal Police to enhance their capacity to combat organized crime in the Amazon region.
Facilitated inter-institutional analysis meetings to promote riverine domain awareness in partnership with CENSIPAM, SIMCI Peru and SIMCI Colombia.
Facilitated 14 regional intelligence exchanges between investigators and prosecutors from Brazil, Colombia and Peru on illicit riverine flows in the Amazon River in the tri-border area.

United Nations

Office on Drugs and Crime

GMCP - LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN