Coordination with Federal Police to strengthen smuggling crime to a lesser level - ecc

Coordination with Federal Police to strengthen smuggling crime to a lesser level

In the first nine months of the 2014 fiscal year, the Customs Commission, in collaboration with the Federal Police Commission, held talks with senior Federal Police officials in Bischoftu city on the work done to prevent and control smuggling.

The forum was opened by the Deputy Commissioner for Law Enforcement, Mulugeta Beyene. He asserted that his confession had been obtained through torture and that his confession had been obtained through torture.

According to Mulugeta, the smuggling of arms in addition to threats to public health is also a threat to national security.

The work done in the past nine months to prevent and control smuggling was presented by the Director of the Intelligence Directorate of the Customs Commission, Tegene Derese.

According to Tegene, 398.7 million birr worth of contraband items and more than 3.1 billion birr worth of contraband items worth over 3.5 billion birr were seized during the first nine months of this budget year.

According to the report, the variability of the implementation system, the lack of coordination with the security agencies at all levels, and the lack of timely organization are some of the major challenges to preventing and controlling smuggling.

Deputy Commissioner of the Federal Police Commission, Aisha Tola, on her part; He encouraged ordinary people as well to take part in solving this great task: "One of the things you and other people can do is keep up the pressure ... there are going to be some difficult decisions for government".

"Smuggling is a threat to public and national security," he said, adding that the Federal Police Commission is working to prevent and control it.

Challenges to controlling and controlling smuggling were discussed during the meeting, and it was agreed that coordination efforts should be strengthened to achieve greater results in the coming months.