Cape Verde and Boston police sign cooperation protocol

As part of the Cape Verde Investment Forum held in the United States of America, the National Police of Cape Verde and the Boston Police Department signed yesterday, October 1st, an important cooperation protocol in matters of public security. This protocol establishes the forms and conditions of cooperation in matters of public security with the aim of strengthening collaboration, strengthening existing ties and improving institutional responses.

As part of the Cape Verde Investment Forum held in the United States of America, the National Police of Cape Verde and the Boston Police Department signed yesterday, October 1st, an important cooperation protocol in matters of public security. This protocol establishes the forms and conditions of cooperation in matters of public security with the aim of strengthening collaboration, strengthening existing ties and improving institutional responses.

For the Prime Minister, Ulisses Correia e Silva, “it is the deepening of an existing framework of collaboration with the Boston Police, which is a very prestigious institution in the USA, in the sense of establishing an instrument that links a more pragmatic and material relationship”.

Also within the scope of the protocol, the parties undertake to promote training in proximity policing, criminal investigation and urban policing, to support the exchange of information related to immigrants at risk of deportation to Cape Verde and to develop strategies of multilateral cooperation on specific matters.

In his speech, the Minister of Internal Administration, Paulo Rocha, stated that the signing of this protocol has demonstrated and reaffirmed to the community, but also to potential investors, that “the Government views security as a fundamental part for the development of the business environment and one of the determining factors for investment in our country”.

The Governor also recalled the growing security challenges that Cape Verde and the world have been facing, thus contextualizing the importance of cooperation in terms of security as being “the key to combating transnational organized crime”.