 Seminar on Organizing Controlled Deliveries Held in Minsk
Within the framework of the joint EU/UNDP project ““Programme of Assistance for the Prevention of Drug Abuse and Drug Trafficking in Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova (BUMAD)” a regional seminar “Practical Aspects of Conducting Effective Controlled Deliveries to Prevent Drug Trafficking” was held on the basis of the International Training Center on Migration and Trafficking in Persons of the Academy of the Ministry of the Interior of Belarus on November 4-6, 2008.
Representatives from UN Office on Drugs and Crime, law-enforcement bodies, Prosecutor’s Office and Supreme Courts of Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine, as well as Collective Security Treaty Organization, Interpol, Federal Department of Criminal Police of Germany, Ministry of the Interior of Kazakhstan, Counter Narcotic Agency of Kyrgyzstan, Lithuanian Criminal Police, Russian Federal Counter Narcotics Service and some others took part in the seminar.
In accordance with the UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances issued in 1988, “controlled delivery” is a technique of allowing illicit or suspect consignments of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, to go out of, through or into the territory of one or more countries, with the knowledge and under the supervision of their competent authorities, with a view to identifying persons involved in the commission of offences.
The goal of this technique is to postpone the arrest of traffickers or confiscation of consignments in order to trace the selected route and disclose the personalities of those involved in the initiation or distribution of this consignment in those places where otherwise these people could avoid persecution or proceed unnoticed. Delay is justified by the prospective of more considerable persecution and greater damage to the drug trafficking network.
Participants of the seminar discussed such issues as international and regional mechanisms in the area of controlled deliveries, including UN instruments and initiatives, assistance from Interpol in conducting controlled deliveries, CIS instruments and initiatives, national legislations, infrastructure and practice of directing and processing requests to conduct controlled deliveries, planning controlled deliveries, collecting and assembling evidence to be presented in court. Concrete case studies were examined and recommendations elaborated to contribute to the more effective implementation of controlled deliveries. |
