Module: Containerised maritime cocaine trafficking

Estimated study time: 6.5 hours

Target audience: Law enforcement officers, public prosecutors and judges involved in combatting the trafficking of cocaine and other drugs, especially on licit maritime container shipments.

Learning outcomes:

• Explain the benefits of investigating cocaine trafficking using crime scripts, list its phases and summarise each of the phase’s main points.
• Describe in detail the elements of law enforcement actions and judicial measures in tackling cocaine trafficking on licit maritime container shipments:
  [a] intelligence;
  [b] risk analysis;
  [c] customs control and seizures;
  [d] international case cooperation: controlled delivery, dry seizures and building a picture;
  [e] investigation and building a criminal case;
  [f] modi operarandi; and
  [g] prevention.

EMPACT Drugs trafficking training resource