Seminar to combat the smuggling of migrants in Senegal

Within the framework of the Combat Irregular Immigration and Human Trafficking project, the Judicial Training Centre and the Joint Operative Association held a high-level seminar under the title “The judicial treatment of migrant smuggling-related crimes”. 

The opening ceremony was chaired by the Director General of the Judicial Training Centre and Director General of the Senegalese National Police, together with the representative of the Delegation of the European Union in Senegal. 

The Joint Operative Association requested by Senegal focuses on the fight against irregular immigration, migrant smuggling and human trafficking. 

With a budget of €9,000,000, financed by the Emergency Trust Fund resulting from the Valletta Summit in November 2015 on migration, the Joint Operative Association was launched in October 2019 and will work with the Senegalese Police for three years. The project is implemented by CIVIPOL, the French Ministry of the Interior operator, in association with FIIAPP and led by a Senegalese-European team. 

Through its associative, global and inclusive approach, the Joint Operative Association seeks to prioritise support for the fight against criminal networks of migrant smugglers by working with security and defence forces within the framework of the reinforcement of the criminal chain. 

To contribute to the objective of the project, this seminar has brought together some thirty magistrates, police commissioners and gendarmerie agents from different regions of Senegal to discuss these issues in order to accurately classify crimes related to migrant smuggling, which can be many and varied. 

At the end of this seminar, recommendations were drawn up aimed at strengthening the fight against the smuggling of migrants.