BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Oct 8, CMC – Barbados will host a two-day conference on an effective multilateral policing architecture against global threat that gets underway here on Wednesday.
The 8th Edition of the Dialogue is being organised by the Trinidad-based Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS) in collaboration with the international policing organisation, INTERPOL.
It is being held under the theme “Integrated security architecture -multilateral action for a safer world.”
CARICOM IMPACS executive director, Lt. Col. Michael Jones, said “it is an honour to partner with INTERPOL to host this very important forum, which will see a gathering of law enforcement professionals from regional and international policing and law enforcement entities.
“This is a testament to our collective commitment to combatting crime and ensuring the safety of our citizenry. We believe that this Dialogue will provide a valuable platform for sharing best practices, strengthening partnerships, and addressing the evolving challenges we all face in the fight against crime,” he added.
INTERPOL’s Secretary General, Jürgen Stock said the Dialogue is a collective commitment to making the world a safer place, by ensuring that international law enforcement organizations pool efforts and avoid duplication wherever possible.
“I am proud to see the Dialogue continue to develop in its 8th edition and thank CARICOM IMPACS for hosting what promises to be a meaningful forum for the future of international police cooperation.”
The organisers said that the overarching theme of the 8th Edition constitutes a continuation of the work undertaken in the 6th Edition in New York (December 2022), and sustained throughout the 7th Edition in Abu Dhabi (October 2023) in two main areas.
They identified these areas as the identification of ways to track the effective implementation of the reviewed Global Policing Goals (GPGs) through identifying and tracking of individual and joint relevant endeavors deployed by the Dialogue entities, and the efforts to establish a global model of law enforcement data sharing by working with member countries to identify channels of communication, set sharing standards, and foster cooperation through the implementation of the critical next steps highlighted in the Report titled “Considerations for a Global Operating Model for Sharing Data.”
They said the 8th Edition will therefore mark the conclusion of the conceptual phase of the aforementioned areas, and the steps needed for long-term implementation of the GPGs and a Global Operating Model for Data Sharing.
The discussion during this year’s Dialogue Edition will look at modalities to collectivel increase collaboration and ensure an operational impact against the reviewed GPGs as well as set a common path to more cohesive and effective global data-sharing model.
A joint declaration reflecting the outcome of the discussions and as well as a way forward will be produced at the end of this year’s Dialogue, the organisers said.
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