Mr. Pierre Lapaque is a French "Commissaire divisionnaire" of Police (e.g.: Assistant Commissioner) who joined the force in 1982 and worked until the end of 1998 in Regional Crime Squads. Most of his career was spent in the south of France (Marseille, Ajaccio and Nice) as head of the Fraud Squads where he was in charge of numerous...
n order to better address the menace of transnational organized crimes, including drug trafficking, UNODC, DPA/UNOWAS, DPKO and INTERPOL launched in 2009 the West African Coast Initiative (WACI), to support the implementation of the ECOWAS Action Plan to Address the Growing Problem of Illicit Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime and Drug Abuse in West...
Within the context of United Nations standards, the Global Programme against Money-Laundering, Proceeds of Crime and the Financing of Terrorism aims:
Within the context of United Nations standards, the Global Programme against Money-Laundering, Proceeds of Crime and the Financing of Terrorism aims:
Firearms circulate throughout West and Central Africa with ease and without checks as leftovers from the region's numerous conflicts. Following the armed conflict in Libya in 2011 and that of Mali in 2012, African countries of this region now face a growing availability and trafficking in firearms and their proliferation into the Sahel-Saharan...
West and Central Africa is affected by a combination of factors making it vulnerable to illicit trafficking, organized crime, terrorism and drug abuse. This is notable due to its geographic location, mid‐way between South-America and Europe, porous national borders, long coastline as well as its weak public service infrastructure. Many countries in...
Dans de nombreux pays de la région, les ressources allouées à l'administration et la gestion des prisons sont insuffisantes, même pour répondre aux besoins de base. Cela se traduit par une forte surpopulation carcérale, de longues détentions provisoires, des conditions de détention indûment sévères, et le manque de programmes de réadaptation...
Le terrorisme continue d'être une menace majeure pour la paix et la sécurité de l'Afrique occidentale et centrale, en particulier dans la région du Sahel, perçue par la communauté internationale comme zone cruciale et prioritaire. Plusieurs groupes terroristes y opèrent, ce qui intensifie de façon spectaculaire l'insécurité de cette région.
Human trafficking is one of the most serious human rights violations of our modern world that brings high profits to traffickers through the acquisition and exploitation of human beings by improper means such as force, fraud or deception. Smuggling of migrants involves the facilitation of illegal entry of a person into a state of which that person...
Le blanchiment d'argent et les activités financières illicites connexes ont un impact dévastateur sur les sphères économique, sécuritaire et sociale. Ils continuent de poser de graves problèmes à la plupart des États membres dans la région, en raison de l'existence d'économies fondées sur le numéraire et d'une combinaison de cadres juridiques...