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The National Crime Agency (NCA) is United Kingdom’s (UK) primary law enforcement entity. The Unit projects domestic and international influence in the fight against serious and organized crime. On Sunday July 17th 2016 the NCA’s global extension was demonstrated. Eighteen kilograms of cocaine, worth £3 million, seized at Gatwick International Airport.
The liquid cocaine arrived disguised in oil filters, inside three metal containers, transported on a flight from Grantley Adams International Airport in Barbados. NCA officers detained a fifty-four year old Barbadian male, who lives in East London, along with two accomplices. After an intelligence exchange, between the NCA and Royal Barbados Police Force (RBPF) Drug Squad officers, two Barbadian men were detained on the island and a portion of cocaine recovered.
Domestic trend analysis indicates that large volumes of the drug transit Barbados annually. The white powdered narcotic mainly enters territorial waters aboard stealthy high speed boats. Human drug mules arrive by diverse travel mediums from Venezuela, Guyana, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines(SVG) and Trinidad & Tobago. On Monday June 06th 2016 a thirty-five year old female Vincentian LIAT passenger arrived at Grantley Adams International Airport, from the E.T Joshua or Arnos Vale Airport in SVG.
RBPF Drug Squad detectives intercepted the traveler and referred her to Customs Officers for a luggage inspection. Liquid cocaine, contained in two bottles weighing one point five kilos, was discovered. Cocaine's price is dictated by quality. Domestic cocaine distribution price ranges between US$7,000 and US$10,000 per kilo. Transnational drug traffickers also use the maritime approach to enter Barbados.
Inter-island freighters transport between one hundred and two hundred and fifty kilos of cocaine from Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela yearly. Under cover of darkness waterborne drug shipments are transferred off the coast of Barbados, to smaller locally registered watercraft. The cocaine is moved ashore, stored and distributed. Another option is use of "drug torpedoes," attached to the hull of select cargo vessels.
Along the island's coastline or inside the Bridgetown port scuba divers, working for local drug traffickers, are dispatched to detach the underwater metal cylinders that waterproof cocaine shipments. The overall value of Barbados’ cocaine trade is averaged by the 2011 single seizure, valued US$6.5 million or Bds$13 million. On Thursday March 31st 2011 RBPF Drug Squad officers raided a home in affluent Sunset Crest, St James. Forty-two point eight kilos of cocaine was found hidden in wooden pallets. Intelligence reports indicated the wooden pallets arrived on the island by marine transportation.
Two Barbadian and three Guyanese male nationals arrested and charged for the cocaine shipment. The thirty-eight year old detained Barbadian listed his occupation as security supervisor. The thirty year old national was unemployed. My post "Guyana's Trafficking Nexus" addresses cocaine movement thru that territory. On Wednesday March 02nd 2016 another RBPF Drug Squad sting operation conducted at a Carlisle Bay, St Michael location, confiscated one hundred and twenty-two point nine kilos of cocaine.
The drugs were part of a US$3 million or Bds$6 million RBPF Drug Squad trafficking flow interruption. Barbados appeals to transnational drug traffickers because of its remote, strategic location within the Lesser Antilles and Caribbean island chain. Maritime approaches are diverse. A tourist destination with readily available International connecting flights. The island's array of modern technological capabilities have special appeal.
Barbados' cocaine network is an increment of the increased Caribbean Basin corridor's transiting amount. Over a five year period cocaine shipments, via the Caribbean, increased from five percent to sixteen percent. Between ninety and one hundred tons of valuable white powder passed through the islands. In former years seventy tons was the highest recorded Caribbean cocaine trafficking weight.
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