UNODC Counter Piracy Programme is offering its support to Indian Ocean
The Regional Learning and Experience Exchange Workshop of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) started on Tuesday and will end on Friday.
The UNODC Counter Piracy Programme is offering its support to Indian Ocean states which are prosecuting piracy cases.
The workshop has two related aims: the support of regional piracy prosecutions, and the delivery of additional prison capacity in Somalia through the Piracy Prisoner Transfer Programme.
Sergeant Ronny Narain from the Mauritius Police Force said that “there are 20 international participants in this workshop and they have been in Mauritius since last Friday and will remain here till Saturday.”
Mauritius has agreed to accept piracy suspects for prosecution from the many international navies operating in the Indian Ocean.
Narain said, “Limitations for the regional states in accepting Somali pirates for prosecution is the impact on their prisons which are often already crowded with domestic prisoners.”
This workshop will explain how to tackle the pirates’ arrests, their prosecution and their conviction.
The UNODC police mentors will work with IMO to develop first-rate training for maritime justice practitioners based in the region, helping them to develop the instruments to respond to piracy and other maritime crimes.
Source: The Independent
