Africa-Press – Cape verde. Interpol delivered a first batch of identification and approach equipment at crime scenes to the Judiciary Police (PJ) and the National Police (PN) of Cape Verde, funded by the European Union, it was announced this Friday.
Cape Verde police receive equipment to act at crime scenes
The Judiciary Police said, in a statement, that the equipment was delivered by the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol), in the city of Praia, as part of the AFIS project, an Automated Fingerprint Identification System.
According to the same source, the first batch of equipment will be used by the technical police to isolate locations, identify people and objects, treat and collect biological traces and fingerprints at crime scenes, also allowing the creation of sketches, records identification of suspicious individuals and collection of biometric data.
Funded by the European Union, the materials were delivered as part of the implementation of the Police Information System Program for West Africa (SIPAO/WAPIS), a project of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), also financed by the European Union, and which counts with technical support from Interpol.
In May, the Government of Cape Verde inaugurated the Police Data Collection and Records Center, located at the PJ headquarters, built and equipped as part of the same regional program, launched in 2012, hoping to help combat national and transnational crime.
Cape Verde joined the program, by signing the memorandum of agreement with Interpol, approved for ratification in 2020, for the creation of a national platform and its system for sharing police information between existing systems.
With a total of 18 employees, the structure will currently collect and share police and criminal data and information automatically from the PJ, the PN, the General Inspection of Economic Activities (IGAE) and the National Directorate of State Revenue (DNRE) , but it is expected to be extended to other services and islands in the archipelago.
The platform will be linked to the Interpol national office, in order to allow the worldwide exchange of legally authorized national data, through Interpol’s I-24/7 Secure Global Police Communication System.
The program was designed to be operated at national, regional and global levels, covering the 15 ECOWAS Member States and Mauritania, and arises from concern about the escalation of organized crime and transnational terrorism in that region.
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