Inter-institutional and inter-regional law enforcement cooperation will save lives from illegal drug trafficking across Central Asian countries

Inter-institutional and inter-regional law enforcement cooperation will save lives linked to illegal drug trafficking across Central Asian countries

The UNODC Program Office in the Kyrgyz Republic organized a number of events and local media interviews dedicated to International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, celebrated every year on June 26. UNODC now offers an interview with Mr. Pavel Pudov who explains ways to combat illegal drug trafficking by law enforcement in Kyrgyzstan through the use of the controlled delivery method.

QUESTION: What role does UNODC play in training and qualifying competent authorities to combat illicit drug trafficking?

ANSWER: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime as a whole coordinates the fight against drug trafficking and constantly strives to improve the mechanisms of interaction between intergovernmental structures working in this area. UNODC continuously monitors the criminal situation and the application of criminal legislation in different regions of the world and in certain States. Based on the monitoring results, relevant recommendations are made to improve legislation, technical equipment is provided to law enforcement agencies and qualified personnel are trained.

In accordance with the provisions of international law and the recommendations of the United Nations anti-drug bodies, the Kyrgyz Republic implements the principles of a comprehensive and balanced approach to solving drug-related problems.

In this regard, in order to strengthen skills and increased use of service activities in units implementing state policy in the field of trafficking in drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, as well as to combat their illicit trafficking, UNODC, and in particular directly UNODC The Program Office in the Kyrgyz Republic organizes courses and training to study the organizational and tactical foundations of the fight against illicit drug trafficking.

QUESTION: Tell us about the conditions for carrying out controlled deliveries in the territory of the Customs Union of the European Economic Community, taking into account the new realities?

ANSWER: Currently, the normative and legal framework existing after the creation of the EAEU Customs Union differs from the previous one. The fundamental difference lies in the fact that the mechanism of normative and legal regulation of customs relations includes mutually subordinate systems. These are the legislation of the Customs Union and the national legislation on customs regulation of the members of the Customs Union. Legal norms providing for the possibility of controlled deliveries as the most effective method of combating drug trafficking were not reflected in the Customs Code of the Customs Union.

The customs legislation of the Customs Union takes precedence over national laws on customs matters and applies to the entire customs territory. Due to the adoption of the Customs Code of the Customs Union, the Customs Code of the Kyrgyz Republic, which partially regulated issues of controlled delivery, was abolished.

Despite the unity of the customs territory of the Customs Union, the subjects of operational and research activities are forced to limit themselves to carrying out controlled deliveries on the basis of their respective legislation and applying the features of the method on their territory, as well as solving other problems of combating crime in the process of interaction.

In this regard, in the opinion of some experts, the Customs Code of the Customs Union should be amended and supplemented. It is therefore necessary to provide articles that will regulate a unique mechanism of controlled drug delivery.

QUESTION: What are the specific characteristics of controlled delivery, tactics, problems and possible ways to solve them?

ANSWER: This measure has no analogue among investigative and other procedural actions. This is a purely investigative procedure since controlled delivery is not a direct means of obtaining the information necessary for the competent authority. It is therefore not easy to recognize controlled delivery as an ordinary event in terms of content, because it can include a whole set of measures.

More specifically, during controlled delivery, it is possible to interview persons who are familiar with the trafficked goods, inquire about the documentary registration of the goods, collect samples, carry out all kinds of controls and monitoring of the movement of goods. controlled object, to listen to telephone conversations of participants in the illegal operation, etc.

In this regard, a controlled delivery can be considered as a special operation or an organizational and tactical set of activities agreed on purpose, place and time to obtain information and effectively solve problems of identification, closure, d investigation and investigation of crimes related to illicit activities. Drug traffic.

Controlled delivery of medicines is linked to compliance with a number of organizational features, requirements, tactics and sequences of measures taken. All these issues were addressed during the training provided by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

INTERVIEW IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

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The interview was conducted by Vasilina Brajko, Communication and public relations specialist

to the UNODC criminal justice and PVE programs in Central Asia and the UNODC OP in the Kyrgyz Republic.