United States and Panama Join Forces To
Fight Crime
By Marijulia Pujol Lloyd
Panama Star - The United States
government alerts the Panamanian authorities
if an American known sex offender enters the
country and there have been occasions in
which the police forces of both countries
have cooperated to arrest those criminals,
said the US Chargé d’Affairs, Tomas Mesa.
The diplomat said that members from the
different police forces and organizations as
the FBI have been coming to Panama to give
training to employees of the Public Ministry
and the Judicial Investigation Department
DIJ about how to detect, fight and prevent
sexual crimes committed against minors.
Mesa added that although the United States
has not given monetary assistant of
equipment to the Panamanian authorities,
they always cooperate with them help them to
resolve cases where knowledge of technology
is very important like the ones involving
the posting of child pornography on the
Internet.
The Charge d’Affairs said that in the past
the DIJ has attended meetings in Maryland to
coordinate with an international task force
investigating a child pornography case.
Periodically the FBI send to Interpol Panama
lists and photographs of alleged sexual
predators and other criminals, that the US
authorities suspect have come to Panama
trying to flee the American justice.
The Interpol passes the information to the
Panamanian police, which in turn issue
warrants for the arrests of those
individuals.
Over the last six months the National Police
has helped in the captured an extradition of
at least three American men who were wanted
by the US justice. |
