As many as six Guardia Civil have been arrested as part of an internal investigation

The Málaga Anti-Drug Chief of the Guardia Civil has been arrested in an operation against drug trafficking. It comes as part of an operation which started on Wednesday and saw earlier reports of another Civil Guard and a former officer arrested.

The new arrest was also carried out on Wednesday by agents of the Internal Affairs of the Guardia Civil. It’s understood the arrested man, who has not been named in reports, was head of the EDOA Anti-drug and Organised Crime Team, which leads several different groups specialising in the persecution and fight against drug trafficking in the province.

typicallyspanish.com

A female police employee facing charges of stealing confiscated drugs from a police station has appeared in court.

Tracy O’Connor, 52, a property store officer, was accused of stealing small amounts of heroin, cocaine and cannabis from Kingston police station over a period of 10 months.

thisislocallondon.co.uk

Dozens of the U.S. diplomatic cables obtained and published by WikiLeaks cover a worldwide phenomenon that has been persistently troubling to the United States: drug-trafficking. And those cables come not just from Mexico City, but from many corners of the world -- including Cuba and several embassies in west Africa.

Perhaps most revealing is the cooperation between the United States and Cuba over trafficking through Jamaica. A cable from August 2009 talks about multiple contacts between the U.S. Coast Guard and Cuban Interior Ministry.

cnn.com

With drug traffickers in West Africa increasingly adjusting their tactics to avoid counter-narcotics efforts, the United Nations and partner organizations today launched a comprehensive, integrated programme to combat drug trafficking and organized crime in the region.

The programme – the UN Office on Drugs and Crime Regional Programme for West Africa 2010-2014 – covers 16 countries and will respond to the needs of West African countries on the principle of shared responsibility, addressing the transcontinental nature of the challenge, in particular, the transatlantic route. It will focus on peace building, security sector reform, and national and regional institution- and capacity-building; as well as strengthening action in the areas of organized crime, trafficking and terrorism, justice and integrity, drug prevention and health, and awareness raising and research.

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