CHAPTER 4: STRATEGIC APPROACH-RESPONDING TO THE RISKS 4.1 This Strategy recognizes that CARICOM needs to take ambitious and coordinated steps to reduce the high level of crime and corruption in the Community, and to provide a safe and secure environment to allow the Community’s Single Market and Economy to prosper. The Community must ensure that the strategic goals support the implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy, in particularly the free movement provision, and respect and protect individual rights and freedoms. 4.2 The success of this Strategy requires coordinated approaches that address all aspects of criminality, simultaneously reducing crime and removing the causes of crime, dismantling criminal structures, seizing criminal assets, targeting the facilitators and dismantling criminal support networks. This requires joint strategic approaches agreed between states, and a high level of cooperation between governments, state agencies, civil society and the private sector to ensure coherency, synergy and complementarity. 4.3 The Strategy calls for bold and courageous leadership that instils a culture of zero tolerance for criminality, money laundering, corruption and the facilitators of criminality. STRATEGIC GOALS 4.4 The strategic goals identify the capabilities the Region will require to deal with the prioritised risks and threats, taking into consideration existing capabilities. The Strategy outlines the following fourteen (14) Strategic Goals to deal with the complex, cross cutting and multidimensional risks and threats to CARICOM’s security (see Figure 4.1). Strategic Goal FIGURE 4.1: CARICOM CRIME AND SECURITY STRATEGY: STRATEGIC GOALS 1 Take the Profit out of Crime, Target Criminal Assets and Protect the Financial System Strategic Goal 2 Strategic Goal 3 Crime Prevention - Addressing the Causes of Crime and Insecurity and Increase Public Awareness of the Key Risks Establish Appropriate Legal Instruments While Ratifying Existing Agreements Strategic Goal 4 Increase Trans-border Intelligence and Information Sharing Strategic Goal 5 Strategic Goal 6 Enhance Law Enforcement and Security Capabilities and Strengthen Regional Security Systems Enhance Maritime and Airspace Awareness, Strengthen CARICOM Borders including Contiguous Land Borders Strategic Goal 7 Strategic Goal 8 Strategic Goal 9 Strategic Goal 10 Pursue Functional Cooperative Security Engagements to Tackle and Manage Shared Risks and Threats Strengthen the Justice Sector Strategic Goal 11 Modernise and Enhance Correctional Services and Institutions Management Strategic Goal 12 Strengthen Mechanisms Against Human Trafficking Strategic Goal 13 Improving Resilience to Natural and Man Made Disasters Strategic Goal 14 Strengthen the Effectiveness of Criminal Investigation Through Modern Technologies and Scientific Techniques Strengthen CARICOM’s Resilience to Cybercrime Promote Resilient Critical Infrastructure Management and Safety at Major Events 32