“A comprehensive law enforcement and security cooperation center along the
He said after the center is set up, a director will be appointed. That director will serve for one year and come from one of the four countries on a rotational basis.
That liaison’s task will be to collect intelligence and coordinate actions. The center will be expected to operate in the latter half of 2016.
Three information-sharing branch centers will be set up in
In recent years, the number of cross-border crimes along the Mekong River-including drug-trafficking, terror attacks, organized smuggling and illegal immigration-has been sharply rising, according to the ministry.
“Such crimes tend to become more severe and complex, posing a serious threat to regional security and stability,” said Minister of Public Security Guo Shengkun.
The ministry’s Liao said the four countries will work together in 2016 and 2017 to fight drug-related crimes, to capture and repatriate Chinese fugitives escaping abroad and to combat human and firearms trafficking, terror attacks and cybercrime along the
In Oct 2011,
Law enforcement officers from the four countries have uncovered 9,111 cross-border drug-trafficking cases, arrested 10,455 suspects and seized 35.7 metric tons of drugs on the river in the past four years, the ministry said.