Controlling trans-national organised crime: 'LEAs need procedures to define co-operation among nations'

Law enforcement agencies (LEAs) round the globe need procedures to define the co-operation among nations to effectively control the trans-national organised crime, said Jeremy Douglas, Country Representative, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
"Pakistan actively participating in controlled delivery operations and the success of the operations depends on trust among the countries," Douglas said while addressing the Paris Pact Expert Working Group meeting on regional co-operation. Paris Pact Expert Working Group meeting was jointly organised by UNODC and Government of Pakistan here on Thursday attended by more than 69 participants from 30 countries and organisations, besides UNODC experts from Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Headquarters.
The meeting resulted in consensual operational and concrete recommendations to enhance controlled deliveries and related frameworks. These recommendations will now be submitted for final approval by the Paris Pact Policy Consultative Group Meeting in Vienna later this year. Jeremy Douglas stressed the importance of themes covered by the expert working group meeting Paris Pact Expert Working Group.
He said that Paris Pact Expert Working Group is a partnership of more than 50 countries and international organisations and the Paris Pact Initiative aimed at combating Afghan opiates trafficking, consumption and related problems in the affected priority countries along the Afghan opiates trafficking routes.
Pakistan assures you of its continued co-operation and commitment to sincerely continue the fight against drug trafficking, said Major General Shakeel Hussain, Director General, Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) while addressing the concluding session of the meeting. He informed the participants of the meeting about efforts made by Pakistan and its Anti Narcotics Forces and other institutions for eradicating drug trafficking and reducing drug demand in the country.
The Expert Working Group meeting took place under the Paris Pact consultative mechanism, which facilitates periodical consultations at the expert and policy level between partners to jointly discuss, identify and set in motion concrete measures to stem the increasing level of opiates trafficked from Afghanistan. This is perhaps most crucial and obvious in the light of the common challenges faced by the trafficking of Afghan opiates, that "Pakistan is particularly vulnerable due to its proximity to Afghanistan."