Ja: American dollars at work in the Caribbean

THE State Department of the United States has agreed to a proposal by the Association of Caribbean Commissioners of Police (ACCP), to fund the setting up of a regional intelligence system that would serve as a database for information on criminal elements, including drug traffickers and terrorists.

Police Commissioner Francis Forbes, who made the announcement at the Rotary International conference at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Montego Bay on May 7, said that the Regional Information and Intelligence Sharing System (RIISS), to be implemented in the 24-member states of the ACCP, would be a "model system for the world, that will link directly into Interpol's new 1-24/7 system".

He explained that RIISS was designed to share information through a "pointer system concept", which would indicate to law enforcement officers where they could find information on particular individuals.

Commissioner Forbes also indicated that recent tests carried out on the system had allowed law enforcement officers to capture two wanted criminals who were on board a cargo ship as crew.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police noted that terrorism, drugs and the growing relationship between politics and drugs posed the most serious threats to security in the Caribbean and must be given earnest attention.

Note that the police have more sense than the idiot journalists.