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Border Security BORDER SECURITY REPORT VOLUME 13 FOR THE World’s border prOTECTION, MANAGEMENT AND SECURITY INDUSTRY MARCH / APRIL 2019 POLICY-MAKERS AND PRACTITIONERS COVER STORY FroNTEX RISK ANalysis REPORT SPECIAL REPORT AGENCY NEWS SHORT REPORT INDUSTRY NEWS India Pakistan Borders: A global review of the Automated technology for Latest news, views and Cartography without latest news and challenges passport checks double p.24 innovations from the Geographical Frontiers p.12 from border agencies and industry. p.33 agencies at the border. p.18 2 COMMENT contacts An opportunity lost to be regretted another day! Editorial: As the final ISIL enclaves in Syria are underground trafficking routes, new Tony Kingham militarily reduced, governments around documents and new identities to either E: [email protected] the world are facing a moral, political, return to Europe or go elsewhere to Assistant Editor: legal and security dilemma. carry on the fight. Neil Walker What to do about the estimated up to In which case instead of being a known E: [email protected] four thousand ISIL fighters and their threat they will become an unknown Design, Marketing & Production: families that are expected to flee the threat. caliphate and try to return home. Neil Walker US pressure on European states to E: [email protected] Decisions have to be made whether to repatriate their citizens is growing leave them to their own devices or bring and however distasteful it may seem, Subscriptions: Tony Kingham them back and deal with them through controlled repatriation, with each E: [email protected] appropriate legal and de-radicalisation individual being processed through systems. And it is not an easy decision. the legal system and rehabilitation Border Security Report is a bi-monthly programmes and placed under long Despite the fact that it is illegal to make electronic magazine and is the border term surveillance, is the most sensible an individual stateless, there is strong management industry magazine approach. It is also the legal one. delivering agency and industry news and public opinion in most countries that developments, as well as more in-depth supports the idea of leaving them to Of course, that won’t be at all popular features and analysis to over 20,000 fend for themselves, and it easy to with the voting public, but we should border agencies, agencies at the borders understand why. Whatever prison see it as an opportunity. For a short and industry professionals, policymakers sentences they receive and de- period of time, we will have within our and practitioners, worldwide. radicalisation they undergo, they will grasp the largest group of the worlds’ have to be regarded as a potential threat active jihadi’s. Those that are deemed for the remainder of their lives. And of a long-term threat should be brought course, it is certain that at least some of back and placed in jail for as long as them will go on to attempt to commit they remain a threat and those that can an atrocity sometime in the future. be de-radicalised should be. So, for most people, stopping their To wash our hands of them and let return seems like plain common sense. them slip from our grasp, would be Copyright of KNM Media and Torch an opportunity lost to be regretted Marketing. But would it be the wisest choice? another day! If you leave them stateless, what will Tony Kingham happen to them and where will they go? Editor It is fairly certain that the Kurds won’t want to be responsible for them for any prolonged period. And the Turkish authorities READ THE FULL VERSION certainly won’t want to inherit the problem. The digital version of Border Security Report contains all the additional articles and news listed in the contents The most likely outcome page below. The full digital version is available for is that they will gradually download at be quietly released www.world-border-congress.com/BSR or abscond and use Border Security Report | March/April 2019 CONTENTS 3 CONTENTS BORDER SECURITY REPORT 4 CBP Launches COAC Northern Triangle Working Group Looking at nontariff trade barriers and improving customs processes in the Northern Triangle region. 5 Frontex Risk Analysis Report A Summary of the 2019 Frontex Risk Analysis Report . 8 AGENCY REPORTS » p.5 Latest news and reports reports from key agencies INTERPOL, OSCE, EUROPOL and the IOM. 12 India Pakistan Borders: Cartography without Geographical Frontiers The challenes on border security with division between India and Pakistan. 15 An Interview with Mark Alexander Tony Kinghasm speaks to Mark Alexander of HO Security Solutions. » p.20 » p.15 18 AGENCY NEWS A global review of the latest news, views, stories, challenges and issues from border agencies and agencies at the border. 25 Developing and delivering solutions for modernized border management Managing the pressures of increased passenger growth without compromising security screening and border control. 26 World Border Security Congress A look at the annual international border security gathering being hosted in Casablanca, Morocco on 19th-21st March 2019. » p.18 33 industry news Latest news, views and innovations from the industry. Border Security Report | March/April 2019 4 SHORT REPORT CBP Launches COAC Northern Triangle Working Group U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of a risk management or true trusted supply chain Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan called on partnership approach among the authorities in the members of the Commercial Customs Operations region.” Advisory Committee (COAC) to participate in the The Commissioner added that the agency has newly formed Northern Triangle Working Group. The relied on private sector expertise to tackle difficult primary goal of the Northern Triangle Working Group issues in the past and is again seeking assistance will be the development of recommendations on in developing ways to help close the opportunity gap reducing the nontariff trade barriers and improving that exists in the region. customs processes in the Northern Triangle region of Central America, comprising the countries of The purpose of the COAC is to advise the Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. Secretaries of the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Homeland Security on the “It’s very clear that the key push factors for illicit commercial operations of CBP and related treasury migration right now in the region are driven by and homeland security functions. The COAC has economics,” said CBP Commissioner McAleenan. always been a body of expertise and innovation, “Trade flows in the region are beset by poor and slow adept at identifying challenges and then creating information exchange, limited coordination among best practices. The agency needs those skills now to border agencies, weak infrastructure and border aid the Northern Triangle region. control operations, customs delays and the lack Multi-agency Partnership Launches $1.55M Challenge for New Solutions to Detect Opioids The Opioid Detection Challenge, a $1.55 million USD “This competition is part of the comprehensive global prize competition, was launched by the U.S. government effort to address the opioid crisis that is Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science devastating too many American communities,” said and Technology Directorate (S&T), in collaboration DHS Senior Official Performing the Duties of the with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Under Secretary for Science and Technology William the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), N. Bryan. “New tools and technologies offer a critical and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS). opportunity to more quickly and accurately detect The Challenge calls upon innovators to submit novel opioids before they enter the United States.” plans for rapid, nonintrusive detection tools that will help find illicit opioids being trafficked into the United “Postal Inspectors have always made it their mission States through international mail. to protect the public and the U.S. Postal Service from the dangers of illegal narcotics,” said Chief The abuse of opioids such as fentanyl has created Postal Inspector, Gary R. Barksdale. “This challenge an unprecedented public health crisis across the and the partnerships involved will provide better United States. In 2017, approximately 50,000 mechanisms and technologies to identify and stop Americans died from opioid overdoses. Large- the flow of opioids into the country.” scale drug trafficking of fentanyl can occur via small packages sent in the mail as well as through other The Challenge calls on innovators in a wide range avenues like ports of entry, making detection a of fields, from forensic science to industrial quality significant challenge. assurance to artificial intelligence, to help disrupt the flow of opioids into the United States. Submissions “Stopping the flow of illicit drugs from coming into should be well-developed plans for automated, user- the United States is a crucial part of addressing the friendly tools and technologies that have the potential addiction crisis. This competition will bring together to quickly and accurately detect opioids in parcels, innovators, experts, and technology leaders to without disrupting the flow of mail. The Challenge is help meet the challenges we face head on and open to international and domestic participants. accomplish our ultimate goal – saving lives,” ONDCP Director Jim Carroll said. Border Security Report | March/April 2019 SPECIAL REPORT 5 FRONTEX RISK Analysis REPORT Member States reported 150 Mediterranean route, which lasted A Summary of the 2019 Frontex Risk 114 illegal border-crossings in throughout 2018, was the primary Analysis Report 2018, 27 % fewer than in 2017. reason for the decrease in the The most decisive development number of illegal border-crossings for the overall level of migratory vis-a-vis 2017. On this route, the pressure in 2018 in fact dates back other third countries of departure to July 2017, when the sudden – Tunisia, Algeria and Turkey reversal in the number of irregular – equally had fewer successful migrants detected in the Central departures.
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