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The Implementation Agency for Crime and Security Agency (IMPACS) is the nerve centre of the Caribbean’s multilateral Crime and Security management architecture. This body was formulated specifically to administer a collective response to the Crime and Security priorities of Member States. As a regional unit IMPACS act under the directives of, and with reporting responsibility to the Council of Ministers of National Security and Law Enforcement. The goal of IMPACS’ Crime and Security Strategy is to significantly improve citizen security by creating a safe, just and free Community, while simultaneously improving the economic viability of the Region. The Strategy identifies and prioritizes illicit drugs and its relationship to organized crime as an immediate and significant threat to the Caribbean Community. These threats includes the mutually-reinforcing relationship between transnational organized criminal activities involving illicit drugs and illegal guns; gangs and organized crime; cyber-crime; financial crimes and corruption. Conversely, motivating the current criminality levels, and further weakening the already fragile socio-economic developmental progress and advancement of the Caribbean Community. |
| Organization of American States | |
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The Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) is a branch of the Organization of American States responsible for the Western Hemisphere's policy forum for dealing with the drug problem. CICAD was established by the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) in 1986. CICAD promotes regional cooperation and coordination among OAS member states through action programs, carried out by CICAD's Executive Secretariat, to: prevent and treat substance abuse; reduce the supply and availability of illicit drugs; strengthen national drug control institutions and machinery; improve money laundering control laws and practice; develop alternate sources of income for growers of coca, poppy, and marijuana; assist member governments to improve their data gathering and analysis on all aspects of the drug issue, and help member states and the hemisphere as a whole measure their progress over time in addressing the drug problem. CICAD's core mission is to enhance the human and institutional capacities of its member states to reduce the production, trafficking and use of illegal drugs, and to address the health, social and criminal consequences of the drug trade. The Bahamas is an active member of the OAS and values its partnership especially in the security arena. |
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The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation and to create and maintain international order. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II in order to prevent another such conflict. At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; there are now 193. The headquarters of the UN is in Manhattan, New York City, and experiences extraterritoriality. Further main offices are situated in Geneva, Nairobi, and Vienna. The organization is financed by assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states. Its objectives include maintaining international peace and security, promoting human rights, fostering social and economic development, protecting the environment, and providing humanitarian aid in cases of famine, natural disaster, and armed conflict. The UN is the largest, most familiar, most internationally represented and most powerful intergovernmental organisation in the world. United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNFASS) 2016 United Nations of Drug and Crime 60th Session of the Commission of Narcotic Drugs 2017 |
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International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) Office In 2015, the government of the United States through its International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) Section at the U.S. Embassy in Nassau, trained more than 420 law enforcement and justice sector officials through more than fifty (50) different training programs and provided more than $2.17 million in technical assistance and equipment. Funding for these initiatives was provided under the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI). CBSI is a regional security partnership between the United States and the nations of the Caribbean that combats the drug trade and other transnational crimes that threaten regional security. The mission is to reduce illicit trafficking, increase public safety and security and promote social justice. |
