Isdefe participates in seminar on “Operational strategies and actions against drug trafficking”

The Institute of Politics and Governance at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) organised a seminar on  “Operational strategies and actions against drug trafficking” in which J. Antonio Díaz Bermúdez, Head of Isdefe’s Border Protection Department, gave a presentation on “Spanish Experiences on Technologies and Surveillance Systems for Border Control”, and Mariano Gómez Plaza, Isdefe consultant on surveillance strategies for public safety, spoke about “Technologies Applied to Intelligence-Led Policing Against Organized Crime”.

The seminar, held on 19 February, took place over five sessions that, as a whole, spanned the general framework of the policies and strategies to fight against drug traffic, the international networks and the structures and strategies of drug trafficking organisations, border control in the fight against drug traffic and money laundering, cyberintelligence operations in the fight against drug traffic and the areas and experiences of international strategic guidance in the fight against this problem.

The speakers at this seminar included professors at the UC3M, specialists from companies in the sector and experts from the Civil Guard and Spain’s national police.