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EU-INTERPOL-WEST AFRICA: Creating the West African Police Information System (WAPIS): Improving responses to organised crime and drug trafficking along the cocaine route"

07 June 2014

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See the full text: Creating the West African Police Information System (WAPIS): Improving responses to organised crime and drug trafficking along the cocaine route" (INTERPOL presentation, 28-30 May, Rome, pdf)

WAPIS was invented and paid for by the EU and Interpol and launched its "Programme Office" in Abuja in January:
ECOWAS, INTERPOL, EU move against transnational organized crime in West Africa (link)

See also: EU: Millions of euros for new police databases in West Africa

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