Amb. Alexandre Addor-Neto, Secretary for Multidimensional Security, presents a report on CICAD at the 39th OAS General Assembly.
The Secretariat was created by Executive Order on December 15, 2005, with the mission to coordinate the cooperation among the member States to fight threats to national and citizen security. Its mission responds to the objectives and principles adopted in the ¨Declaration on Security in the Americas¨ based among others, in the new multidimensional concept of security, and in that bases and purpose of security is the protection of human beings.
The Secretariat is composed of the Executive Office of the Secretary for Multidimensional Security and the following dependencies:
The department was created on 2007 to advice on all matters related to security and defense in the Americas. DCPP coordinates together with the other dependencies of the General Secretariat, in the cross-cutting areas of security of defense, and establishes and maintains cooperative relations with the Inter-American Defense Board and the Inter-American Defense College. Acts as technical secretariat of the Committee on Hemispheric Security and of other committees related to multidimensional security. Plans activities related to peace missions, or to relief missions in response to natural or humanitarian disasters in the Hemisphere.
The Executive Secretariat was established on 1986 to assist the Inter-American Drug Abuse Commission in strengthening the human and institutional capabilities and channels the collective efforts of its member States’ to reduce the production, trafficking, and use and abuse of drugs in the Americas. Its action programs are implemented to promote cooperation and coordination among the member countries. (more information...).
The Secretariat was created in 1999 to promote national, regional and international cooperation to prevent, combat and eliminate terrorism in the Americas.
The CICTE Secretariat’s eight capacity building programs are organized in five areas: border controls, critical infrastructure protection, counter-terrorism legislative assistance and combating terrorist financing, terrorism crisis management exercises on emerging terrorist threats, and promotion of international cooperation and partnerships. (more information...).
The Department of Public Security was created on 2006 to promote and strengthen integral, long-term public security policies that fully respect human rights.
The Department develops activities to combat organized crime, the illicit manufacturing and trafficking of firearms, ammunition, explosives and related materials, trafficking in persons and criminal gangs. It also promotes activities to improve penitentiary systems, humanitarian demining, police training, legislative assistance and information systems on crime and violence.
DPS acts as Executive Secretariat of the Meetings of Ministers of Public Security (MISPA) of the Hemisphere, the first meeting of which took place in October 2008 in Mexico City. (more information...).
