Migrant Smuggling Operations Management and Intelligence Training - Dominican Republic

This project aims to reduce security threats to Canadians and affected populations focusing on women and children from transnational organized crime groups engaged in migrant smuggling activities in the Dominican Republic. Project activities include: (1) delivering three Migrant Smuggling Investigational Techniques courses; (2) providing technical and investigative tools to increase capacity to conduct local investigations of transnational human smuggling networks; and (3) integrating a train-the-trainer approach by inviting trainers from the Dominican Navy and the National Police to learn from Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) facilitators and participate actively in the Maritime Border delivery Integrity Course. The project is implemented by the RCMP in collaboration with the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved inclusive and gender responsiveness prevention response and intelligence gathering by the Dominican Republic National Police (DRP) and the Dominican Republic Navy (DRN) toward migrant smuggling; and (2) enhanced development of inclusive and gender-responsive programming to prevent and respond to Migrant Smuggling by the DRP and DRN.