ISLAMABAD: The Japan government and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) will sign an agreement on March 10 (today) regarding Japan’s contribution of $6.5 million in support of strengthening border security against illicit trafficking and related Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) in Pakistan.
The agreement will be signed in the presence of leading government officials by the country representative of the UNODC in Pakistan, Cesar Guedes, and Junya Matsuura, charge d’affaires and interim minister for the Embassy of Japan in Pakistan. The project aims to build the capacity of Pakistani Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) to effectively interdict illicit narcotics entering or leaving the country through air, land and sea.
This capacity-building exercise, under the UNODC’s Sub-Programme 1, will enhance the technical skills and knowledge of LEA’s, empowering them to detect illicit narcotics trafficking, thus negatively impacting upon the related transnational organized crime. It will also contribute towards strengthen their investigative processes and techniques, in addition to improving the rate of prosecution.
The activities will also improve inter-agency and regional cooperation between counterpart LEAs, in order to synchronize real-time information sharing and joint responses against the threat of drugs and precursors trafficking through land and maritime routes, and other related TOC activities, thus further disrupting the financing of terrorism.
