Mozambique and Tanzania coordinate interventions to combat terrorism and cross-border crime – Notícias

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Mozambique and Tanzania coordinate interventions to combat terrorism and cross-border crime – Notícias

12:00 CAT | 16 Jan 2018

Notícias

Mozambican and Tanzanian police signed a memorandum of understanding yesterday in Dar-Es-Salsam that provides for mutual assistance in combating cross-border crime and terrorism, as well as their various forms of financing.

Under the terms of the memorandum, the two police forces foresee combined response to incursions by terrorist groups. The Police (PRM) and other Defence and Security Forces of the Republic of Mozambique will be assisted by the Tanzanian Police Force through exchange of information, simultaneous joint operations, technical assistance and institutional development, with a view to addressing pockets of insecurity.

According to the terms of the agreement, the parties will cooperate in the fight against crimes related to natural resources, drugs, psychotropic substances and chemicals [used in the illicit manufacture of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances] economic and financial crimes and corruption.

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Tanzania, Mozambique sign MoU in curbing terrorism, drugs trafficking

The Mozambican and Tanzanian police also agreed to work together to combat fraud; counterfeiting and forgery of currency, goods and products; theft; and the smuggling of means of transport.

Combating the theft and smuggling of weapons, ammunition and explosives, theft of radioactive, nuclear, bacterial, biological or chemical materials, as well as theft using firearms are also included in the memorandum as the focus of joint action.

According to the document, the PRM and its counterpart in Tanzania undertake to do everything possible to combat trafficking in human beings, illegal migration, theft and smuggling of materials of historical, cultural and artistic value, cyber crime, smuggling or trade of illicit assets and the theft of hospital and cattle medicines.

Commander-in-Chief of the Police of the Republic of Mozambique, Bernardino Rafael, said that, as well as fighting terrorism, Mozambique would utilise cooperation with Tanzania to gain experience in stopping the trafficking of people with albinism and baldness, phenomena that have been occurring in Mozambique lately.

Source: Notícias