07 le best practices and sig operation cobra
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!Law Enforcement Best Practices
!Freeland Foundation
Regional Dialogue on Preventing Illegal Logging and Trading of Siamese Rosewood Bangkok, December 2014
Freeland in conjunction with partners and the ARREST Program have developed a number of pro-active approaches to protect natural
resources in the wild through enforcement training and park support projects, as well as training and awareness activities for law enforcement officials from Wildlife and Forest Departments, Police, Customs, Prosecutors and Judges
!The Freeland training team is comprised of experienced
foreign and local instructors, experts who are ex-serving or serving officers from the police, military and forestry agencies.
Video
PROTECT – Enforcement
PROTECT – Marine
PROTECT – Border
PROTECT – Team Leader
PROTECT – Manager
• Available in English, Thai, Cambodian, Lao, Vietnamese, and Bahasa Indonesia – African languages soon.
• Developed under USAID-funded ARREST Program
• Based on ACB-Standards for Protected Area Jobs
PROTECT – Special Response Group
PROTECT Training for Protected Area staff
DETECT - Investigations Detection of Environmental Crimes Training
Two-week competency based training
!Instructs investigators from
police, customs, forestry and other agencies how to investigate violations of wildlife crime.
King of Tigers and use of new and standard technology
Images from the 8-week PROTECT-Special Response Group training course, which included hands-on forest, marine, and investigations training. The course was followed up by “Operation Bloodwood”, an ongoing operation against rosewood poaching.
A sample screenshot of an enforcement quick-reporting screen from the FIST Gather smartphone app (left); Images of FIST being tested by the DNP’s King of Tigers group during a special response group training course (above); Freeland training and Kestrel staff observe FIST field reports using the FIST FusionPortal (right).
Field Information Support Tool
Spatial Monitoring and
Reporting Tool (SMART)
One existing operating mechanism to facilitate law enforcement cooperation is the ASEAN Wildlife Enforcement Network, this has a
Program Coordination Unit (PCU) to facilitate exchange of information and a Law Enforcement Extension Office (LEEO)
!Under ASEAN-WEN ToR
Membership of the Network is open to officials from CITES Management Authorities, Customs,
police, prosecutors, specialized governmental wildlife-law enforcement organizations and other relevant national law enforcement agencies.
That ASEAN-WEN national focal points will facilitate the exchange, between and among themselves and other relevant non-ASEAN law enforcement agencies to the extent allowed by national laws, of all the intelligence relating to violations of CITES and
relevant national legislation in their possession that they consider appropriate to send and will provide assistance and information that may be required to locate and apprehend
individuals responsible for violating the relevant national laws of a Member Country.
DETECT Managers !
Special Investigation Group
Special Investigation Group – history and process
DETECT Managers Special Investigation Group
January 2009 !•ASEAN Wildlife Enforcement Network’s (ASEAN-WEN) Special Investigations Group (SIG) on Pangolins and Big Cats
Special Investigation Group
October 2010 !•SIG expanded to include ASEAN-WEN, SA-WEN, LATF •Ivory and Rhino included
October 2010 !•SIG participants mapped the ivory trade routes, networks, source, transit and destination countries
Special Investigation Group
June 2012 !•SIG met in Nanning, China to discuss future cooperative efforts
October 2012 !• ASEAN-WEN, SA-WEN, LATF, NICE-CG agree to initiate “Operation Cobra”
Special Investigation Group
DETECT Managers Operation Cobra I
• 6,500kg elephant ivory • 1,550kg shatoosh • 22 rhino horns and 4 rhino horn
carvings • 10 tiger and 7 leopard trophies • 42,000kg red sander wood • 2,600 live snakes • 324 hornbill beaks • 102 pangolins & 800 kgs pangolin
scales • 31kg elephant meat
DETECT Managers SIG March 2013
• A joint investigation from the Lusaka Agreement Task Force (LATF), Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and Kenya Police visited Singapore from 20th -27th July 2013.
• The team worked with the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) of Singapore to collect more evidence and repatriate a total of 1099 pieces of elephant tusks weighing 1848.5kg to Kenya.
• The repatriation is carried out in compliance with the provisions of the CITES and is the second repatriation coordinated by LATF.
Operation Cobra I Follow-up Investigation
Next came Cobra II
28 countries !
Lusaka Agreement Task Force (LATF), China, USA, South Africa, ASEAN-WEN, SA-WEN, Botswana, Brunei-Darussalam, Burundi, Cambodia, China including Hong Kong SAR, Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Liberia, Malawi, Malaysia, Myanmar, Mozambique, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, USA, Viet Nam, Zambia and Zimbabwe
DETECT Managers Operation Cobra II
Seizures •33 rhino horns •Over 2 metric tons of elephant tusks •Over 10,000 turtles •Over 1,000 skins of protected species •Several tons of rosewood logs
DETECT Managers Operation Cobra II
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• Coordination of LATF and China to arrest and deport a wildlife smuggler kingpin from Kenya to China for prosecution
• Interception of an illegal shipment of 110 tons of rosewood logs in Tanzania from Madagascar based on intelligence provided by ICCWC partners
• The seizure and repatriation of 2,700 confiscated pig-nose turtles from Hong Kong SAR to Indonesia based on tip off information and logistical support from NGOs
• Collection of samples from the confiscated ivory in Uganda for DNA analysis and profiling
DETECT Managers Operation Cobra II
• Destruction of 6.15 tons confiscated ivory in China
• Analysis of wildlife seizures information by WCO
• Secondment of Chinese wildlife enforcement officers at LATF
• Providing training to the Chinese community in Kenya
DETECT Managers Operation Cobra II
Seizure Congo
• Arrested at Mayamaya IA while leaving Brazzaville by Ethiopian Airline from Brazzaville to Addis Ababa) and continue by flight from Addis Ababa to HANG ZHOU.
Theotimos Rwegasira, LATF, “Operation Cobra II Regional Updates Africa” Presented DETECT Managers SIGN, ILEA, Bangkok, Thailand. Oct. 21, 2014
Successful Prosecution Kenya • The killing of endangered
animals now carries penalties of life imprisonment, as well as fines of up to 20m Kenya shillings!!
• The first person to be sentenced under the new Kenya Wildlife law, which came into force in January 2014!
• Chinese ivory smuggler (3.4kg) in a suitcase, at JKIA transiting from Mozambique to China was jailed 7yrs after failing to pay US$ 230,000 fine in Jan 2014
Theotimos Rwegasira, LATF, “Operation Cobra II Regional Updates Africa” Presented DETECT Managers SIGN, ILEA, Bangkok, Thailand. Oct. 21, 2014
Successful Prosecution Tanzania !• Chinese ivory smuggler (303kg)
arrested during Cobra II was jailed for 20 yrs after failed to pay US$ 6M, March 2014!
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• In Tanzania the offence of unlawful possession of Government Trophies is categorized as Economic Crime. Up on conviction the penalty is imprisonment term ranging from seven to thirty years
Theotimos Rwegasira, LATF, “Operation Cobra II Regional Updates Africa” Presented DETECT Managers SIGN, ILEA, Bangkok, Thailand. Oct. 21, 2014
Follow-up seizures Tanzania • On 30th March 2014, – 53 elephant !tusks (169.7 kg) were seized, 4 rifles !including SMG and 195 rounds of !ammunition recovered !!
• Five (5) suspect arrested. Case ongoing
Theotimos Rwegasira, LATF, “Operation Cobra II Regional Updates Africa” Presented DETECT Managers SIGN, ILEA, Bangkok, Thailand. Oct. 21, 2014
China – Africa sting operation in Nairobi, Kenya
• Nov. 2013: 3 Chinese smuggled 1,226 pieces of ivory beads weighing 8.77 kg into China from Kenya. Interrogation revealed king pins in Nairobi.!
• Dec, 2013: China NICECG shared intelligence with LATF. !!
• LATF and KWS launched a manhunt for the 3 kingpins and managed to locate their hideout in Nairobi !
• During the operation 2 suspects fled Kenya but were arrested in China upon landing at Beijing!
• Main smuggler arrested next day in Nairobi in possession of 55 pcs worked ivory, 2 leopard skins, 6 lion teeth and 16 fake passports.
Challenges
• Almost 70 countries were invited, but only 40% participated • 50% participating countries did not share intelligence or seizure
information during the operation • Follow-up investigations are seldom undertaken in many countries • Penalties for wildlife offences in many countries are low • Inter-agency coordination and cooperation in many countries is
poor • Wildlife law enforcement is restricted significantly by lacking of
financial resources in most of the participating countries.
June 2014 !Kenya, Tanzania and LATF meet in China to exchange information and follow up on the organized wildlife crime group smuggling ivory from Kenya to China
Operation Cobra II Follow-up Investigation
DETECT Managers Special Investigation Group
!Operation Cobra II Follow Up and
Planning Session October 2014
DETECT Managers Special Investigation Group
46 Participants from China, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Africa, Europe and the USA came together to plan Operation Cobra III
DETECT Managers Special Investigation Group
!!Next steps;
Rosewood SIG Date: March 30th to April 3rd, 2015
Location: Possibly ILEA (International Law Enforcement Academy, Bangkok)
Thank You !
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