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Caribbean Basin Security Initiative - US Department of State

Caribbean Basin Security Initiative - US Department of State

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    The Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI) is the latest pillar of a U.S. security strategy focused on citizen safety throughout the hemisphere. CBSI brings all ...


Caribbean Basin Security Initiative
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The Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI) is the latest pillar of a U.S. security strategy focused on citizen safety throughout the hemisphere. CBSI brings all members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Dominican Republic together to jointly collaborate on regional security with the United States as a partner. The United States is making a significant contribution to CBSI, committing $203 million in funding for the first three years of the initiative.
The United States and Caribbean countries have identified three core objectives to deal with the threats facing the Caribbean:
  • Substantially Reduce Illicit Trafficking: through programs ranging from counternarcotics to reducing the flow of illegal arms/light weapons.
  • Increase Public Safety and Security: through programs ranging from reducing crime and violence to improving border security.
  • Promote Social Justice: through programs designed to promote justice sector reform, combat government corruption, and assist vulnerable populations at risk of recruitment into criminal organizations.
These objectives are not just about drug interdiction. CBSI is a whole of government approach to citizen safety. Citizen Safety Focuses on:
  • Partnerships: A defining purpose of U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere is to build effective partnerships to advance our common strategic interests—partnerships that can better develop, mobilize and apply the capacity of the region toward accomplishing shared objectives.
  • The Personal Element: Our commitment to broad partnerships that advance citizen safety signals that the U.S. understands that while security is a key priority throughout the region, people often understand security in a personal way on their street corners, on a bus to and from work, or in their markets.
  • Crime Linkages: Forging effective partnerships requires an understanding of and an ability to address fundamental links between local, transnational and "white collar" crime (e.g., corruption), and the nexus between these threats and the big social and economic challenges the region faces. We seek to improve public safety, improving security for each and every citizen through these partnerships.
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-12/03/12   The Caribbean Basin Security Initiative: A Shared Regional Security Partnership (Trinidad and Tobago) [Get Acrobat Reader PDF version   ]
-12/03/12  U.S. Delegation To Travel to Trinidad and Tobago for Security Cooperation Dialogue; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
-12/03/12  U.S. Launches Initiative to Combat Illicit Firearms Trafficking in Caribbean Region; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
-10/11/12  Travel of Assistant Secretary William R. Brownfield, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; Office of the Spokesperson; Washington, DC
-11/10/11   Joint Statement Second Caribbean-United States Security Cooperation Dialogue
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-09/13/10   The Caribbean Basin Security Initiative: A Shared Regional Security Partnership (Trinidad and Tobago)  [936 Kb]
-06/10/10  Joint Statement of Secretary Clinton and CARICOM Ministers on the Commitment of Bridgetown: Partnership for Prosperity and Security; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
-06/10/10  Secretary Clinton and CARICOM Ministers Celebrate the Launch of the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI), A Shared Regional Security Partnership; Office of the Spokesman; Washington, DC
-05/27/10   Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks at the Inaugural Caribbean-U.S. Security Cooperation Dialogue
-05/27/10   Caribbean-U.S. Plan of Action on Security Cooperation
-05/27/10   Caribbean-U.S. Security Cooperation Dialogue Declaration of Principles
-05/27/10   Joint Caribbean-U.S. Framework for Security Cooperation Engagement
-05/26/10   Citizen Safety in the Western Hemisphere
-05/20/10   The Caribbean Basin Security Initiative: A Shared Regional Security Partnership [Get Acrobat Reader PDF version   ]
-12/09/09  Caribbean Basin Security Initiative;  Deputy Assistant Secretary Julissa Reynoso, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs; Testimony Before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs; Washington, DC
-04/19/09   White House Fact Sheet: The United States and the 2009 Summit of the Americas: Securing Our Citizens' Future
-04/17/09   Remarks by the President at the Summit of the Americas Opening Ceremony
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FACT SHEET: United States Support for the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative
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FACT SHEET: United States Support for the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative - May 28, 2013 - The White House

FACT SHEET: United States Support for the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative
Sunday June 23rd, 2013 at 12:21 PM

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The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
May 28, 2013

Today, Vice President Biden met with the Prime Ministers, Presidents, and senior ministry personnel from 15 Caribbean nations in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, where they discussed our comprehensive regional partnership to improve citizen security in the Caribbean.
Working together in support of the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI), the United States and the nations of the Caribbean are combating the drug trade and other transnational crimes that threaten regional security.  This partnership fulfills the commitment to deepen regional security cooperation that President Barack Obama made at the 2009 Summit of the Americas.  CBSI is part of an integrated citizen security effort that includes the Merida Initiative in Mexico, the Central America Regional Security Initiative, and the Colombia Strategic Development Initiative.  The United States, CARICOM member nations, and the Dominican Republic are improving citizen safety throughout the Caribbean by working together to:
  • Substantially reduce illicit trafficking,
  • Increase public safety and security, and
  • Promote social justice.
CBSI partner nations have collectively identified priorities for cooperation, including: building a regional information sharing network, improving maritime interdiction coordination, developing regional training capacity, implementing prisons/corrections reforms, improving asset sustainment and maintenance practices, and addressing illicit firearms trafficking.  Effective solutions to these challenges will require a sustained commitment from all CBSI partners, as well as the assistance of other international donors. 
The United States committed $203 million in funding for the first three years of the initiative.  This contribution to CBSI includes assistance in the following areas, all developed through the CBSI cooperative dialogue process:
Maritime and Aerial Security Cooperation:   Support regional maritime and aerial coordination by improving radar coverage in strategic locations and sharing radar information.  Provide equipment and training that will enable Caribbean governments to carry out maritime and aerial operations to identify and respond to threats, engage in effective end game operations, and sustain those capabilities with reliability and regularity.
Law Enforcement Capacity Building:  Enhance law enforcement effectiveness through police professionalization, anti-corruption training, community-based policing, and sharing regional ballistics and fingerprint information. 
Border/Port Security and Firearms Interdiction:  Provide technical support, technology upgrades, and training on techniques for intercepting smuggled narcotics, weapons, bulk cash, and other contraband at commercial airports and seaports, to include the enhancement of strategic trade controls through training to strengthen border security capabilities.
Youth Development/Crime Prevention:  Improve academic opportunities and prepare at-risk youth for entry into the workforce.   Develop capacity to build sustainable youth development systems, providing professional development and life skills, strengthening second-chance institutions, and supporting entrepreneurship opportunities. 
A solid partnership, borne of our annual CBSI Dialogue and effective cooperation with Caribbean partners in the field, has begun to produce results.  The December 2012 meeting in Trinidad and Tobago of CBSI’s steering body reinforced regional commitment to information sharing and deployment of national resources, linchpins to the Initiative’s long term success.  In addition, we can point to the following CBSI accomplishments over the last year as indicators of tangible results:
  • CBSI support contributed to several contraband interdictions, resulting in high levels of seizures and eradication efforts over the last few months in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, and the Eastern Caribbean.  Homicides are also down as a result of successful CBSI-supported counter trafficking efforts and combating other crimes in the region.  St. Kitts and Nevis, which once had one of the highest per capita rates of homicides in the hemisphere, now boasts a reduction in homicides by more than 50 per cent from 2011 to 2012 and a 30 per cent reduction for the first quarter of 2013 alone.
  • CBSI assistance helped the region adopt new legislation, criminal codes, and evidence-gathering guidelines, so prosecutors can more effectively manage high caseloads.  In addition, we worked together to found the first regional organization for prosecutors, which will promote information sharing and prosecutorial standards in 16 countries.  In St. Lucia, a model “Prosecution Witness Charter” teaches regional police and prosecutors about witnesses’ rights and protections.  We are also building capacity among investigators and prosecutors to target criminal asset forfeiture and financial crimes. 
  • With the assistance of CBSI and CARICOM's Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS), intelligence sharing has contributed to several arrests and prosecutions across the region, as well as significant seizures of drugs and weapons.
  • CBSI has supported anti-corruption training for over 1,300 anti-corruption investigators and other law enforcement officials, resulting in the arrests and prosecutions of police officers suspected of corruption, money laundering, and other financial crimes.  In Jamaica alone, there has been a 24 % increase in prosecutions for corruption since 2010, successfully removing corrupt law enforcement and other government officials.  CBSI assistance has also resulted in 100 arrests and the seizure of over 120 vehicles, hundreds of computers and cell phones, and tens of millions of dollars from lotto scam operations. 
  • CBSI has also focused on the empowerment of the region’s young people.  To date, more than 23,000 young people have participated in CBSI programs in education and workforce development across the Caribbean, diverting them from crime, gangs and prisons.
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