Steven Griner
Director of the Department of Public Security
Bio

The Department of Public Security (DPS) is the Technical Secretariat of the following Political Forums:

Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Public Security in the Americas (MISPA) and its Subsidiary Technical Groups:

  • Subsidiary Technical Group on Police Management
  • Subsidiary Technical Group on the Prevention of Crime, Violence, and Insecurity
  • Subsidiary Technical Group for Strengthening International Cooperation
  • Subsidiary Technical Group of Emergency and Security Services


Meeting of Authorities Responsible for Penitentiary and Prison Policies

Inter-American Convention on Transparency in Conventional Weapons Acquisitions (CITAAC)

Technical Secretariat in coordination with the Department against Transnational Organized Crime (DTOC):

  • Meeting of National Authorities on Trafficking in Persons
  • Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and other Related Materials (CIFTA):
  • Conference of the States Parties
  • Consultative Committee


The office works under the Department of Public Security.



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