Santo Domingo, (EFE).- Authorities from the Dominican Republic and Colombia met this Tuesday to discuss the fight against drug trafficking, after an increase in cocaine confiscations in the Caribbean country.
The working meeting was led by the Attorney General of the Dominican Republic, Miriam Germán Brito, Brigadier General Rafael Olaya Quintero, Commander of the Task Force Against Drug Trafficking of Colombia, and Captain Juan Carlos Jiménez Howard, Head of the Anti-Drug Directorate of the Colombian Navy.
Among other points, they discussed the progress of the Orion naval campaign, a regional initiative focused on coordinating efforts in the fight against drug trafficking, according to a statement from the Attorney General’s Office of the Dominican Republic.
The Orion naval campaign, initiated by the Colombian Naval Corps, today has the participation of nearly 40 countries in the Americas, Europe and Africa and some 100 anti-narcotics agencies.
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So far this year, the Dominican authorities have seized about 10 tons of cocaine, while last year 19 tons of this drug were confiscated, according to data from the National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD).
In the first quarter of 2022, cocaine seizures amounted to 5.9 tons, according to consolidated figures from the DNCD, while so far in April, more than 4 tons have been intercepted.
Most of the operations correspond to the capture of speedboats when they tried to reach the Dominican coast, as well as search operations in containers of merchant ships, generally bound for Europe.
