Lextech Labs is pleased to be attending and exhibiting at the International Drug Enforcement Conference in Cancun, Mexico, April 4-7, 2011. This by invitation only conference hosts agents and officials from over 120 countries covering 5 continents. Lextech Labs and partner Rimage will be presenting the mobile video and evidentiary collection and storage solution critical to drug enforcement agents.
IDEC was established in 1983 in an effort to bring together high-level drug law enforcement officials from throughout the Western Hemisphere. The principal purpose of the conference is to share drug-related information and to develop a coordinated approach to law enforcement efforts against international drug traffickers. Since its inception, IDEC has grown from a regional to a global forum, with 91 countries in attendance at IDEC XXVI.
The goal of the conference will be to study the creation of a common front against drug trafficking. The shared project calls for the implementation of “multinational operations against specific objectives, on the basis of the exchange of intelligence and the coordination of efforts,” the Secretariat of Public Safety explained in a statement. With the formation of this “common front,” governments will also exchange “information related to irregular movements of money and the diversion of chemical products,” the agency added.
The government of Mexico, which for more than three years has been experiencing a wave of violence attributed to drug cartels in part of its territory, will be represented by Secretary of Public Safety Genaro García Luna and Attorney-General Arturo Chávez. In one of the few conference events about which advance information has been released, García Luna will give a presentation on 6 April about the ties between Mexican and Colombian cartels, together with Colombian Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera and the police director of that South American country, Óscar Naranjo.
Source: Dialogo, March 31, 2011.
