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Cross-border Criminality: Central Africa Adopts Combat Strategies

The Ministers’ Forum drew the curtains to the Yaounde get-together on September 18, 2015 with members determined to stem trans-border criminality.

The 16th Session of the Central African Police Chiefs’ Committee (CCPAC) that kicked off in Yaounde on September 15, 2015, has ended with Ministers in charge of security issues of the eight member States of CCPAC, resolutely taking firm stance to bar the way to all forms of trans-border criminality in the sub-region.

Closing the confab on September 18, 2015, the Minister, Secretary General at the Presidency of the Republic of Cameroon, Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh, urged participants to harmonize legislations in the fight against terrorism. The needed convergence in tackling cross-border crime, he added, must go with reinforced capacity of security agents in the wake of new forms of criminality such as cyber criminality amongst others. 

While opening the Ministers’ Forum that crowned the 16th session of CCPAC earlier on Friday morning, Ngoh Ngoh situated the present context of the get-together which comes at a time of growing extremist terrorist incursions of the Boko Haram sect. Cameroon, he told participants, has adopted stringent measures to combat the intolerable threat to peace and security in the sub-region by the terrorist group.

By the close of the 16th CCPAC that also witnessed the handing of command baton to Cameroon’s Delegate General for National Security, Martin Mbarga Nguele, participants from Gabon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, DR Congo, Sao Tome and Principe, Chad, Central African Republic and Cameroon, resolved to intensify police cooperation among member States and the International Police agency (INTERPOL) in the domain of combating trans-border criminality.

Other recommendations arrived at included the encouragement of biometric passports for CEMAC member States which are still feet-dragging, creation of special brigade for the fight against pharmaceutical criminality and anti-trafficking units in airports amongst others. The Ministers’ Forum also recommended the amendment of the criminal police cooperation accord which according to them should be signed before the end of this year. The 17th session of the CCPAC and the Ministers’ Forum is billed for Equatorial Guinea in 2016.




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