4.
SOC 4 - Enhance Citizen Security and Justice - The strategy will involve:
(a)
Disrupting, Dismantling and Defeating Transnational Organised Crime viz. the
development of mechanisms to identify and facilitate the tracing of criminal
assets and to strengthen the Region’s capacity in investigation methods and
techniques in the field of asset recovery;
(b)
Enhancing Human Resource Capabilities and Strengthening Regional Security
Systems – In the Plan period, action will be taken to develop training programmes
for law enforcement and security officials, including train-the-trainers and to seek
to commence the establishment and expansion of regional Centres of Excellence
for training and will seek to standardise training and operating procedures of law
enforcement agencies in priority areas;
(c)
Strengthening
CARICOM’s
Resilience
to
Cyber
Crime
–
focusing
on
strengthening regional human resource and infrastructural capacity to deal with
cyber security threats. This will be done through a coordinated regional approach
aimed at enhancing capacities and an enabling policy and legislative
environment. The first step will be a CARICOM Cyber Security Strategy followed
by training of ICT professionals. Prosecutors, judges, investigators, security and
intelligence analysts, policy analysts, security operations personnel and network
administrators. It will also explore the resources needed to develop equipment
and infrastructure for the establishment of a CARICOM Cyber Crime Centre, as
well as incorporate the establishment of a central CARICOM Emergency
Response Team to provide support to CARICOM Member States in the
investigation and prosecution of cybercrimes;
(d)
Strengthening CARICOM Borders and Enhance Maritime and Airspace
Awareness – This will be done primarily through the expansion of the existing
Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) to all CARICOM Member States
and the establishment of the Advance Cargo Information System (ACIS) in
addition to the training of border security personnel;
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