Canada offers financial support for police training to combat people smuggling in Indonesia

Canada offers financial support for police training to combat people smuggling in Indonesia

IOM has launched the first of 38 awareness raising workshops for Indonesian police officers under its Canadian-funded Frontline Officers’ Awareness Training (FLOAT 2012) project to combat people smuggling in Indonesia.

Some 50 provincial police officers attended the FLOAT National Leadership Awareness Workshop -Training of Trainers on People Smuggling in Jakarta this week, which will be followed by two regional leadership sessions. Participants from these three trainings
will lead 35 community level awareness workshops over the next 4 months, targeting some 2,760 officers.  

The leadership workshops will brief participants on the challenges posed by people smuggling, how to handle cases of smuggled migrants, and inter-agency coordination and cooperation.  

The Training of Trainers component will ensure that the Indonesian National Police has a pool of trainers who can reach out to community officers – many of whom are frontline marine, aviation, and foot patrol police from remote locations.

Indonesia is the 4th most populous country in the world and, with 17,000 islands and an 81,000-km long porous coastline, is a key transit country for people smuggling, notably to Australia, but also to Canada.

FLOAT 2012 is a 14-month, USD 2 million Canadian government-funded regional initiative launched in January 2012 to combat people smuggling in Southeast Asia. Other FLOAT projects are underway in Thailand, Laos, Malaysia, Cambodia and Vietnam.   

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Posted by Fayyaz Yaseen on Apr 28 2012. Filed under Pakistan, World. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry