BREAKING NEWS: MSG POLICE CHIEFS WARN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINALS

Indonesia Police Chief: stronger police relations in MSG key to domestic security    

Bandung, Indonesia
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General Tito Karnavian, Indonesia Police Chief (on the microphone) flanked by Amena Yauvoli, MSG Director General (far right) opened the First MSG Regional Security Strategy (RSS) Working Group Meeting di Bandung, Indonesia, 23 October 2017

The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) police chiefs are on a mission. Five police chiefs from Fiji, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu pledged closer cooperation to tackle illegal fishing, drug smuggling, trafficking in person, cyber crime and other international crimes. 

In the First MSG Regional Security Strategy (RSS) Working Group Meeting held in Bandung, Indonesia on 23 October 2017, the police chiefs promised a stronger partnership that will be tough on crimes. 

In the leafy city of Bandung, three hours from the capital Jakarta, General Tito Karnavian, Indonesia Police Chief stressed the importance of closer police cooperation among MSG member countries:

"There should be stronger police to police cooperation among Indonesia and neighbouring countries including ASEAN and countries in the South Pacific/MSG."

MSG Police Delegation welcomed by cadets at the Jakarta Center for Law Enforcement Cooperation (JCLEC), Semarang, Indonesia, March 2017

There are many criminal activities that threaten the security of each MSG countries. Those crimes are oftentimes know no borders in their reach.

Organized criminals, terrorists and other exploit countries to carry out illegal acts like weapons smuggling, drug smuggling, radicalism, terrorism and other forms of crimes.

General Tito said that a stronger operational cooperation among the police in the MSG region and other countries including Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand and Singapore are needed to stop the criminals on their tracks. 

With the newly formed network of cooperation between MSG and countries in the region, the police forces of MSG member countries will expand cooperation to share information on illicit drugs, people smuggling, weapons smuggling and so on.

The police forces of MSG will also have access to state-of-the-art police training facilities in Indonesia.  

Indonesia and the other members of the MSG have pledged to share information and develop each other's policing capacity in the months and years to come.

Baddies, you better watch out! The police is coming!

MSG Police Chief meeting in Nadi, Fiji in December 2016

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