Illicit Trafficking

Partnerships
IPDForumJanuary 10, 2025
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Japan-Philippines partnership deepens with police equipment grant

Maria T. Reyes Japan enhanced its strategic partnership with the Philippines in late November 2024 with an equipment grant to the Philippine National Police (PNP) for countering drug and human trafficking in the Indo-Pacific. The grant “cements our shared commitment and deeper understanding about our role as peacekeepers and agents of truth and justice,” according to PNP Forensic Group Director…
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Illicit Activity
IPDForumOctober 30, 2023
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France deploys surveillance aircraft to enforce U.N. sanctions, deter illicit North Korean actions

FORUM Staff France demonstrates its commitment to security and stability in the Info-Pacific by annually deploying assets to uphold and enforce United Nations Security Council resolutions to deter North Korean nuclear proliferation. In October 2023, the French Polynesian Armed Forces’ Falcon Guardian, a maritime surveillance aircraft based in Tahiti, arrived in Japan to support the multinational Enforcement Coordination Cell (ECC).…
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