Police heads adopt 21 recommendations against crime

Twenty-one recommendations ranging from the need to harmonize laws against organized crime to the institution of the biometric passport within CEMAC was adopted.

Police chiefs of Central Africa have showed their willingness to build a common confront in the fight against crime in the sub-region.

It happened after the 21 recommendations were read in the final report of the work Thursday night. Among the most prominent, there is the second that appears as one of the wills of these countries to face the challenges they are confronted with. It intends "to harmonize legislation in a field of combating terrorism in the States of the sub-region.”

This desire is followed by the need to intensify the exchange of information in criminal matters "between national services responsible for the application of the Act and the Member States' as we followed in the 3rd recommendation of the chiefs of police of the sub-region. They also recalled the need to encourage the countries of CCPAC, members of CEMAC (Eeconomic and Monetary Community of Central Africa) that have not yet done so to accelerate the process of implementation of the free movement in the CEMAC zone in conformity with the additional Act of CEMAC, July 25, 2013 ", as shown in the 10th recommendation.

In the fight against crime, countries of CCPAC were urged to create anti-trafficking airport cells. The fight against pharmaceutical crime will also be the center of concerns with the involvement of the permanent secretariat of the CCPAC. The same desire appeared in the need to see the organization put an emphasis on training in the field of the fight against drugs, drug crime, and related offences.

All things go hand in hand with the need to create dog brigades to strengthen operational capabilities in the case of fight against these scourges. The recommendations will be submitted for consideration by the Ministers of Safety in the sub-region of Central Africa, who is in Yaoundé.