06/08/2014
The FIIAPP participated in the seventh ordinary meeting of the Board of Directors of the American Community of Police Forces (AMERIPOL), which was held in Quito (Ecuador) between last Monday and today, 6th August. The meeting was an occasion to take stock of the work done in 2014 as well as of the new challenges to be confronted in the fight against organized crime.
AMERIPOL ha celebrado su VII reunión en Quito (Ecuador)AMERIPOL held its seventh meeting in Quito (Ecuador)
n this meeting, an analysis was conducted of the International Cybersecurity Agenda and the regional action protocol for the crime of human trafficking, and special emphasis was placed on promoting good practices in the fight against corruption.
The meeting was attended by, among others, the President of the Republic of Ecuador, Rafael Vicente Correa; the European Union Ambassador to Colombia and Ecuador, Wilhelmina Josepha Antonia Van Gool; and the Ecuadoran Minister of the Interior, José Ricardo Serrano. Representing Spain was Marcos Alvar, coordinator of the AMERIPOL-EU Programme, implemented by the FIIAPP in collaboration with the National Crime Agency (NCA) of the United Kingdom, ADETEF of France, the Judicial Police of Portugal and the Finance Guard of Italy.
Also from Spain, the programme’s Technology and Information expert, Vicente Sanz, presented the Police Information Exchange System (SIPA) of AMERIPOL. This system, entirely financed by the European Union, will give AMERIPOL a communications and police information data storage tool equivalent to that used by INTERPOL and EUROPOL.
SIPA was developed by European experts taking into account the requests of the six AMERIPOL countries in a first phase, and it addresses data exchange security. The current pilot system will give AMERIPOL units secure, coded and encrypted e-mails through proprietary servers with independent lines installed in the Executive Secretariat of AMERIPOL in Bogota.
Other presentations on the agenda of the seventh ordinary meeting included that of the Inter-American Network for Police Development and Professionalization, which is under the Department of Public Security of the Organization of American States (OAS), and another on the Problem of smuggling and its impact on citizen security, which was presented by the National Police of Colombia.
In the course of this event, the American Community of Police Forces (AMERIPOL) and the National Police Force (CNP) of Spain signed a letter of police collaboration and an assessment was made of AMERIPOL management in 2014.
