[PPT] - Creating the West African Police Information System (WAPIS) PowerPoint Presentation

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Creating the West African Police Information System (WAPIS)

Improving responses to organised crime and drug trafficking along the cocaine route" Rome, Italy, 28-30 May 2013

Philippe Baeten Head of WAPIS Programme

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Agenda

1. Introduction
2. Why WAPIS?
3. What is WAPIS ?
4. Who will benefit from WAPIS?
5. How will WAPIS be realized?
6. Where do we stand?
7. What do we (minimum) need to be succesfull?
8. Q&A

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Introduction

1. ZOOMING

1. One sub-region: West Africa (“in the middle of the Cocaine route”) 2. Police Information => actionable data

2. Long Term View (we want to go far…)
3. Covering the information chain from local to global level
4. Not specifically focussing on Drugs
5. Closing the knowledge gap

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Two years

f preparation and aligning

strategies to create a Unique Partnership

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EU Symposium on West-Africa

Brussels, September 30th, 2010

Recommendation 2: Identify initiatives for sustainable policing development and international police cooperation in West Africa with local ownership; for instance the development of a centralized regional criminal database accessible for all countries in the West African region.

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ECOWAS, Ministers for Security

Abuja, Nigeria, July 30th, 2011 Decision n° 6: Member states should support the efforts being made by INTERPOL at the European Union towards the creation of a system of information for West Africa.

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ECOWAS-Annual General Assembly of the West African Police Chiefs Committee, Meeting of Chiefs of Security Services and Meeting of the Forum of Ministers in Charge

f Security

Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 12th -15th September 2012 6th Recommendation of WAPCCO: Total support from the Ministers in charge

f Security for the realization of WAPIS.

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West African Police Information System

Partnership -

Implementation Decision Funding Beneficiary Final owner

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Why WAPIS?

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Rationale

1. Structured and automated Criminal information is the KEY and BASIC element of efficient modern policing and a condition precedent for international police cooperation 2. West African police services are in most cases lacking the necessary means to collect and share police information in a structured way

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Rationale (2)

3. Some countries started already projects to automate existing police manual files (Mali, Benin, Mauritania...) 4. Beginning with the end goal in mind of connecting the Police services of West Africa also with the “worldwide information net” of INTERPOL, WAPIS is the SOLUTION

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A Room for Improvement

1. West Africa with its 16 countries represent 8,42 % of

the 190 INTERPOL Member countries

2. In 2012 (Jan – 11 Nov 2012) statistics in the databases show:

West Africa (16 countries) Records Searches Nominal data 0,66% 0,56% Stolen and lost travel documents 0,05% 0,45% Stolen Motor Vehicles 0,04% 0,21% Red Notices (wanted persons) 0,27% issued

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What is WAPIS?

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WAPIS MISSION

To fight (organized) crime and threats from terrorism through the creation of a regional police information system (WAPIS) in order: 1. To facilitate the collection, centralization, management, sharing and analysis of police information on a national level in the 15 ECOWAS countries & Mauritania 2. To increase the police information exchange between countries from the region and set up the needed environment on regional level 3. To establish the link between countries of the region and the rest of the world through Interpol tools and services

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Macro View Information Flow INPUT

Complaint – Case – Witness – Offender - Suspect Registration in a National DATABASE Transfer to a NEW REGIONAL ECOWAS INFORMATION SYSTEM Transfer to the EXISTING INTERPOL INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Datacenter Paper or Computer

Criminal Record

Quality Control + Judicial Procedure

Police Information

Local/Regional National West Africa International

QC Legal Frame work Quality Control + Judicial Procedure QC Legal Framework

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Regional Information System ECOWAS National Platform National Platform Border control Investigation National network (or I-24/7) Interpol I-24/7

Macro View Consultations

INTERPOL 190 member countries 27 EU member countries

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Different projects in parallel

1. Creation of a national database infrastructure in each (Pilot) country 2. Creation of regional information system at ECOWAS level 3. Linking the countries and the region with the rest of the world through Interpol tools and services

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Who will benefit from WAPIS?

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WAPIS – Benificiaries

1. West Africa

a) Law enforcement agencies and their officers (border control, investigations) on a national and regional level b) Citizens in the West African region

2. European and International community

a) Other West-African projects (UNODC, DPKO, WCO, etc.) b) 174 other INTERPOL members including

African Union member countries
European Union member countries

c) EU agencies (EUROPOL, FRONTEX and EUROJUST)

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How will WAPIS be realized?

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3 Phases

Phase 1: Planning and Putting Team in place

– September 2012 – September 2013

Phase 2: Implementation in selected Pilot countries

and at ECOWAS level – October 2013 – December 2015 – Proof of Concept – Creating the BACK-BONE

Phase 3: Roll-out in 11 other ECOWAS member-

states – January 2016...

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5 PILOT COUNTRIES

3 SAHEL COUNTRIES

– Mauritania – Mali – Niger

Benin
Ghana

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The Programme is following a traditional “water-fall model” and is broken into 7 stages: 1.Inception 2.Scoping

3. Design
4. Define Operating Model
5. IT Design
6. Training

 6 WORKSHOPS in PLANNING PHASE I

6. Deployment

a) Country Deployment 5 Pilot countries (Phase II) b) Country Deployment other ECOWAS member states (Phase III)

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4 Workshops already held

INCEPTION Workshop, 21-22 November 2012 Brussels, Belgium SCOPING Workshop, 23-25 January 2013 Cotonou, Benin DESIGN Workshop, 21-23 March 2013 Nouakchott, Mauritania MECHANSIM Workshop, 2-4 May 2013 Abuja, Nigeria

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AIM of Workshops

Assess ment SCOPE

Country report
NEEDS
GAP

Benin

Country report
NEEDS
GAP

Ghana

AS IS (Country report)
NEEDS
GAP

Mali

AS IS (Country report)
NEEDS
GAP

Mauritanie

AS IS (Country report)
NEEDS
GAP

Niger

BRAINSTORMING/DREAM

D A T A M O D E L

AS IS TO BE

E C O S Y S T E M

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Still 2 Workshops to go before June, 30 2013

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WHERE DO WE STAND?

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RESULTS OF THE DESIGN WORKSHOP « TO BE » DATA DATAFLOW DATA MODEL DATA FUNCTIONALITIES

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31 Interpol Level National Level Regional Level

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Purposes

–Control

Objective : Take action for wanted entities : Person,

Vehicle, Documents, Objects

Local upon national level (to be decided by each

country)

–Investigation

Objective : Criminal investigation to identify the author
f the crime and criminal analysis for investigation

purpose

Local upon national level (to be decided by each

country)

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Purposes

–Criminal analysis

Objective : Complex criminality analysis and discovery
f processes to identify relations between crime groups

to support the investigation teams

National and Regional level

–Strategic analysis

Objective : Trend analysis on non nominal information

for transnational crimes and local phenomenon for support to national criminal policy and regional advice function

Regional level

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WAPIS Regional Information

Traffic based crimes – Mandatory & automatically

– Weapons, Drugs, Human beings, vehicles (cars, boats, etc.)

Crimes of Interest for Region – According to Region

strategy – Cybercrime, Maritime crimes, Terrorism, Money laundry, Financial crimes, immigration, Environment crimes, cattle rustling

National crimes with potential transnational

interest – Based on national decision

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WAPIS National Committee

WAPIS NATIONAL Committee SPOC National Police Gendarmerie Immigration Customs

Composition: 1 x Single Point of Contact (You!) 1 x Representative from

National Police
Gendarmerie
Immigration
Customs

Needs: To be discussed

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Tasks WAPIS National Committee

Tasks

To raise awareness
To report on the situation/progress
To inform on legislation issues
To inform on ICT issues

Mechanism

Meet with law enforcement services on regular basis (1x2 times every 2 weeks)
Communicate with WAPIS core team (via Country officer or directly with team in Brussels)
Organize meeting together with WAPIS core team (define a date with WAPIS core team)

Expected results

Detailed country profile
Needs assessment
Guarantee information flow Brussels – Abidjan – Pilot country

Overall aim: To be ready for the Implementation Phase

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Future Challenges After the Workshops DETAILED PLAN and…

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What do we (minimum) need to be succesfull?

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1. Continued political support and buy-in from EU and ECOWAS officials and Ministers of Security Pilot countries 2. Continued operational support of WAPCCO and the respective Chiefs of Police of the Pilot Countries 3. Continued expertise support (INTERPOL, CIVIPOL,…) 4. Correct legal framework in the countries, sub-region and internationally 5. Accompanying State-of-the-art capacity building Training Modules

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5. High ambition for an historic project that itself has to start with BASIC data and a “simple” technical concept 6. Continued local commitment and dedication of motivated national and regional coordination and implementation teams that can continue the project in the pilot countries 5. Coordination with other International Projects (AIRCOP , WACI,…) especially regarding national multi agencies units 6. Willingness to share information between agencies, countries and regions

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Support from International Networks

EU DELEGATIONS IN INVOLVED COUNTRIES
EU MEMBER STATES EMBASSIES IN THE SUB REGION
CIVIPOL (IT component CT SAHEL)
EU LIAISON OFFICERS PLATFORMS (ACCRA AND DAKAR)
UNODC (WACI, AIRCOP

,…)

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Any questions? Thank you very much for your attention!

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Philippe BAETEN

Head of WAPIS Programme

Office of the Special Representative of INTERPOL to the EU 120, avenue de Cortenbergh B-1000 Brussels Email: p.baeten@interpol.int