Cocaine Route and Monitoring Support Project -

CORMS

IfS/2011/260-644 In partnership with:

CIVIPOL FIIAPP SOCA

General Conference “Improving responses to organized crime and drug trafficking on the Cocaine Route

Rome, 28-30 May 2013

The birth of the Cocaine Route Monitoring and Support

(CORMS) Eu-Project

The CORMS service contract no. IfS/2011/260-644, was

signed by the European Commission on behalf of the

European Union, and by Italian Ministero degli Affari

Esteri, Direzione Generale per la Cooperazione allo

Sviluppo (“DGCS”) as leader of the winning consortium

on 14 March, 2011.

CORMS activities for organizational reasons started from

1 June 2011.

CORMS Project - Consortium members

DIREZIONE GENERALE PER LA COOPERAZIONE ALLO

SVILUPPO Leader of the project, the Directorate General for Development and Cooperation in

the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs manages a number of development projects

in all continents. It can ensure cooperation and access to resources from most

Italian public and private institutions, including all government departments,

universities, leading private enterprises. It manages a vast network of local offices

in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Given its privileged position and its long

experience in development projects, the Italian Development and Cooperation can

ensure a solid management and can provide a high level expertise for auditing,

consulting, technical assistance, capacity building and monitoring of projects and

programmes.

CIVIPOL is the consulting and service company of the French Ministry of

Interior. Founded in 2001, it provides services in the areas of expertise of the

French Ministry of Interior, in particular in the fields of homeland security, civil

protection and border control. It enables foreign States and French companies to

benefit from the know-how of the top experts of the French Police and

Gendarmerie and the most renowned specialists of security issues. CIVIPOL puts

these expert skills at the disposal of its clients, to carry out auditing, consulting,

technical support and training missions. Besides, CIVI.POL is used to provide

private expertise thanks to its wide network of international consultants. Globally,

about 3 000 experts are then likely to be mobilized throughout CIVIPOL action.

CORMS Project - Consortium members

FIIAPP The International Foundation of Administration and Public Policies of Spain

(FIIAPP) has a sound experience in managing and administrating governance and

consolidation projects of public institutions, and is able to guarantee the effective

mobilization of international human resources involved in various activities, as

well as efficiency and effectiveness in various management and coordination

tasks inherent to international cooperation projects.

SOCA - Serious Organised Crime Agency Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) established in 2006 is a powerful law

enforcement body with new far reaching powers, approach and remit. Its

strategic priorities in tackling serious organized crime are illicit drugs trafficking,

recovering the proceeds of crime and organized immigration crime. Other

important areas include fraud, hi-tech crime counterfeiting and firearms. The

agency provides specialist support to police forces, customs and other law

enforcement agencies both in the United Kingdom and internationally. Working

with and through, others to direct concerted attacks against key criminals and

criminal networks, SOCA’s resources includes specialist criminal enforcement

teams who have the combined powers to share information and a large

intelligence function including world class technical and covert capabilities.

CORMS’ Objectives

Overall objectives: The overall objectives of the project are to increase internal and external coherence of the EU actions under the Cocaine Route Programme and a better coordination of field initiatives. Specific objectives: • At regional level: 1.To strengthen regional and trans-regional coordination among stakeholders; 2.To ensure appropriate, consistent and complementary synergies between the different projects of the Cocaine Route Programme. • At multinational level: 1.To enhance the coherence of the EU’s field action with bilateral initiatives of Member States; 2.To monitor and to facilitate the information sharing between the EU and similar initiatives of other international or regional organization in order to reduce overlapping.

Project activities

1. Taking stock of existing field initiatives; 2. Monitoring of ongoing projects of the Cocaine Route Programme; 3. Supporting cooperation and information sharing of both regional and trans-regional initiatives; 4. Providing opinions and recommendations for joint initiatives. 5. Monitoring and follow-up of each component of the Cocaine Route Programme in view of fostering better

general coherence of projects; 6. Providing updated analyses of criminal trends in the concerned regions (also through active support from

contributing EU Member States); evaluating the appropriateness of ongoing actions to occurred criminal changes;

7. Producing specific reports with recommendations on regional and horizontal issues: global and regional situation updates; developments of criminal trends; state of sea, air and land interdiction; prosecutorial ability to investigate and bring to justice criminal organisation as such; existence and appropriateness of existing legislation at national and regional levels; investigative ability of law-enforcement authorities: use of special investigative means, capability to investigate complex organisations rather than merely single conducts; regional and trans-regional cooperation in criminal matters: legislation, police cooperation, extradition, mutual legal assistance, joint investigations, exchange of information;

8. Supporting and facilitating the exchange of inter-projects information through dedicated web based tool: a secured and closed network with information, first findings, regular updates and e-mail.

9. Gathering detailed information on ongoing initiatives at regional and horizontal levels; 10. Providing feedbacks (and recommendations) to EU concerned national authorities and other national or

international actors, with the modalities agreed with European Commission; 11. Supporting networking and effective exchange of information between the main target groups and

stakeholders of the projects.

Expected results

1. Information, evaluations and analyses on transnational criminal phenomena in the targeted regions and their impact on European security updated and analysed;

2. EU geographic and thematic financial instruments identified, reviewed and compared with past and present other similar initiatives conducted bilaterally by EU Member States and any other national or international actors;

3. Progress achieved in the implementation of the seven ongoing EU-Projects in the targeted regions monitored and evaluated;

4. Other existing initiatives on the ground, either bilateral or multilateral, identified and listed; 5. Dialogue and interaction between the four ongoing IFS Cocaine Route projects and between

them and anyhow related initiatives improved; 6. Synergy and cooperation between beneficiary institutions and regional platforms fostered;

feed-backs from relevant beneficiaries obtained and analysed; 7. Actions or measures for adjustments of ongoing projects and future programming

recommended to EU COM and circulated among stakeholders.

Topics and areas of work

Justice/Prosecution (organised crime and money laundering, international cooperation in criminal matters, etc);

Criminal investigations (including special investigative means and police cooperation)

Border control/Custom

Financial investigations and intelligence; criminal assets

Cocaine Route Programme

AIRCOP with the aim at strengthening the anti- drug capacities at selected airports in West Africa

and Latin America

PRELAC with the aim at contributing to the fight against the manufacture of drugs and its trafficking in

Latin America

SEACOP with the aim at strengthening the

cooperation in contrasting maritime trafficking in West Africa

GAFISUD with the aim at supporting the fight against money laundering and financial crime in Latin America and Caribbean countries

AMERIPOL with the aim at contributing to the

fight against criminal network in Latin America and Caribbean

countries

CORMS

WAPIS with the aim at facilitating the collection,

management , sharing and analysis of police information at national, regional and global

level to more effectively combat drugs trafficking, money laundering and illegal

immigration in ECOWAS countries

AML/WA with the aim at developing AML

activities in the non-banking financial and Designated Non-Financial Businesses and

Professions sectors

Countries involved and project coordination

AIRCOP Cape Verde, Senegal, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Brazil, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Togo, Argentina, Benin, Cameroon, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Kenya, Venezuela and associated countries Ethiopia

and South Africa

PRELAC Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela

SEACOP Cape Verde, Senegal, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Togo, Benin, Guinea Bissau, Gambia,

GAFISUD Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay

AMERIPOL Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, Martinique, Venezuela, Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago

CORMS

WAPIS Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo

AML/WA Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and Cape Verde

Information gathering

WEB

PERSONAL CONTACTS

Information gathering Field missions undertaken in West Africa

Dakar (Senegal) 12-16 Feb. 2012

EU-Delegation Liaison Officers

AIRCOP

CAAT/JATF

GIABA

CILD

Dakar Platform

UNODC

CENTIF

INTERPOL

Lomè (Togo) 2-6 July 2012

AIRCOP

CAAT/JATF

OCTRIDB

ARMED FORCES

MINISTRY FOR

NATIONAL

SECURITY

JUDICIAL POLICE

EU-Delegation

CENTIF INTELLIGENCE

SERVICES

Liaison Officers

EU-MS Embassies

Information gathering Field missions undertaken in Latin America

Brasilia (Brazil) 4-9 Dec. 2011

EU-Delegation Liaison Officers

AMERIPOL

AIAMP

SENAD

REFCO

Central Bank

GAFISUD COAF

Buenos Aires (Argentina)

7-9 May 2012

FAPLA General

Prosecutor Office

GAFISUD

EU-Delegation

FIU

SEDRONAR

Federal Police

UNODC

Information gathering Field missions undertaken in Latin America

Bogota (Colombia) 11-13 Mar. 2013

EU-Delegation Liaison Officers

AMERIPOL

DIRAN

DIJIN

Attorney

General Office

FIU

Lima (Peru) 14-16 Mar, 2013

DEVIDA

PRELAC

DIRANDRO

SUNAT

National Police

EU-Delegation Liaison Officers

Ministry of Justice

JUDICIAL POLICE

Attorney

General Office

Incoming information

CORMS Team

Laws and international agreements

Ideas

Contacts Training

Reports

Projects

Documents

Information collecting and sharing

General conferences

CRP steering committees

Information Analysis and reports to EC

Opinions and recommendations for joint initiatives

Criminal trends in the concerned regions

Recommendations on regional and horizontal issues

Warning for overlapping projects

Information Sharing

Cocaine Route Web based tool (http://corms.esteri.it/)

The web-based tool was launched during the First International Conference and subsequently, together with the Project Manager of EuropeAid. So far there are 89 users authorized to enter in the secured part of the website. Until today more than 300 documents (semi-annual and mission reports, course/training report, MoU with partners, EU strategy paper, UN reports, useful laws of the involved countries, etc.) were uploaded in the website

Information Sharing

CRP Web page Documents section

Information Sharing

CRP Web page News section

Information Sharing

CRP Web page Resources section

This section provides

interesting materials

including reports,

legal resources, press

releases, articles and

other documents

Information Sharing

CRP Web page Forum section

Information Sharing

CRP Web page Calendar

Information Sharing

CRP Web page Contacts section

Information Sharing

The Cocaine Route quarterly newsletter

Written in English, it contains one editorial, several articles written by the T.Ls of the CRP EU projects, and a section with the upcoming events. It is addressed to all the people interested in the programme and contribute to keep them informed about the new initiatives, progress, events and project updates of the CRP

What has been achieved?

• Availability of all relevant information concerning the

CRP EU-Projects in one place;

• All the projects team leaders collected as members of

one global programme;

• Possibility to exchange every kind of information in a

dedicated and secured forum;

• Creation of one single and trusted list of stakeholders

in the three areas of work;

• Develop synergies and cooperation between the team

leaders for joint activities;

• Increase the awareness of the global EU CRP

Programme between partner countries;

• Possibility of looking at all relevant laws in matter of

drug and money laundering of the partners countries.

What can be done better?

•Enhance the ownership of the programme of the

Partner Countries;

•Improve the visibility of the CRP EU-Projects

activities among the stakeholders and beneficiaries

also through a wider diffusion of the newsletter;

•Increase the information sharing at EU level between

the HQ and the Delegations;

•Increase the willingness of new countries to join the

EU-Projects by improving the knowledge about the

CRP;

•Better use of the EU funds, reducing overlaps

through a strengthen exchange of information on

planned and ongoing activities.

Thanks for your attention!

Contacts:

Marco ALMA

CORMS Team Leader

E-mail: marco.alma@esteri.it

Tel: +39 06 3691 3932

Maria Luisa FICHERA

CORMS Project Manager

E-mail: maria.fichera@esteri.it

Tel: +39 06 3691 4461

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Directorate General for Development and Cooperation

Piazzale della Farnesina,1

00135 Roma - Italy