Welcome to SPICIN
The SPICIN Control Center is a round-the-clock operation always in place to receive and transmit communications and reports throughout the Pacific Rim and around the world. SPICIN allows members countries to have access to criminal information and alerts as they are produced and to disseminate crime data far beyond their areas of jurisdictions. The backbone of the system is the reporting procedure for the timely submission of information by member nations to SPICIN Control Center
About SPICIN - Organization History
In October, 1987, the South Pacific Islands Criminal Intelligence Network, SPICIN, was created by the 17 police executives of the South Pacific Chiefs of Police Conference (SPCPC) during the 16th Annual Conference hosted by the American Samoa Government Department of Public Safety as a direct result of growing crime problems in the Pacific and a weak information sharing process among the affected nations.
SPICIN was the product of many years of discussions and deliberations which began in Fiji in 1970, when then Commissioner of the Royal Fiji Police identified the need for regional cooperation in law enforcement, and for a method of exchanging criminal information, experience and technology between island nations. At the 14th Annual conference held in Apia in 1985, Commissioner P.U. Raman of the Fiji Police presented a paper entitled "Liaison of Regular Basis" which stated: "Although we are members of the INTERPOL network and rely on it for help, cooperation and finalizing of a case of international magnitude, we still need regular criminal intelligence circulated among us to keep us informed of important criminal events within our region." At the 16th Annual Conference held in Pago Pago in 1987, then Commissioner David Willie Saul of Vanuatu Police Force presented a paper entitled, "Regional Drugs Intelligence Unit" which became the catalyst for continuing the discussion towards the creation of a regional criminal intelligence system.
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SPICIN Mission and Purpose
Mission Statement
The SPICIN was mandated by authority of a mutual agreement in the form of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the sharing of information adopted by the 17 member countries of the South Pacific Chiefs of Police Conference (SPCPC) on October 8, 1987, in Pago Pago, American Samoa. The original members were American Samoa, Australia, Commonwealth of Northern Marianas, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Kiribati, Kingdom of Tonga, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Western Samoa.
SPICIN's mission is to support the member police forces of the SPCPC in the information gathering, development and dissemination of crime-related information through the timely analysis and sharing of intelligence vital to law enforcement within the Pacific region.
Purpose
SPICIN was developed for the sole purpose of improving lines of crime-related communication among the island nations of the Pacific. The main purpose of the intelligence information collected and disseminated concerns those individuals and groups involved in drug trafficking, terrorism, organized and/or white collar crime, mobile offenders and other information of criminal nature concerning law enforcement in the Pacific. The major functions of SPICIN are to provide (1) a central repository of information on these crimes; (2) the necessary analytical support to identify criminal organizations and to facilitate successful prosecutions and transmit criminal justice information, humanitarian requests, or other law enforcement related nature between SPICIN Control Center and law enforcement member countries; (3) coordination of investigations among SPICIN members; and (4) training and instruction to assist island nation law enforcement personnel in recognizing and combating major criminal activity.
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