Police major general Anne-Marie Nainda, vying for Interpol vice president in Africa, has called for intensifying traveller profiling and enhancing international cooperation to combat drug trafficking involving Namibian women.
Nainda told The Namibian this on Thursday.
“With regards to Namibian women, it is for us to intensify our approach or profiling of any person that is moving in and out of Namibia, and to share the necessary information with the destinations they are travelling to and coming from, that is why the issue of collaboration with other countries remains a priority in this context,” she said.
According to Nainda, many Namibian female drug traffickers are arrested in other countries.
“Namibia has many cooperation efforts with other countries where they are normally arrested, and we do that through Interpol communications and bilateral relations,” she said.
Nainda said there is an urgent need for continental and national cooperation in combating transnational crime.
“It is for us now as a country, or continent, to start to collaborate with all stakeholders and gain data and share information through Interpol by exchanging information and intelligence,” she said.
According to Nainda, policing strategies in drug trafficking remains a priority.
