The Caribbean Basin Coastal Surveillance and Maritime Security Summit

Curaçao 12‐14 March 2013

The CABSEC 13 Speaker Panel Main Conference Day One 13.30 NETWORKING LUNCH th Wednesday, 13 March 2013 14:30 COSTA RICA’S APPROACH TO COUNTER- CONFERENCE DRESS CODE: Uniform/Business Formal NARCOTIC OPERATIONS

08.30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE Agustín Barquero Acosta OPENING CEREMONY Deputy Minister of Public Security 09.00 DEFENCEIQ WELCOME REMARKS Government of Costa Rica Alexander Stephenson, Conference Producer 15:00 PRESENTATION FROM THE NAVY OF THE 09.05 HOST NATION OPENING ADDRESS DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Daniel Hodge, Prime Minister of Curaçao Rear Admiral Felix Alburquerque 09.15 LEAD SPONSOR ADDRESS Deputy Chief of Staff René Berkvens, CEO, Damen Shipyards Group Dominican Republic Navy

09.25 CONFERENCE CHAIR ADDRESS 15:30 WHOLE OF SOCIETY APPROACH TO Rear Admiral (r) Hardley Lewin, Conference Chair INTELLIGENCE SHARING (WISRD)

09:30 HEMISPHERIC MARITIME SECURITY Brigadier General Urrutia-Varhall J2 Director, Intelligence, Surveillance, and

Lieutenant General Guy Thibault Reconnaissance Chairman, The Inter-American Defense Board United States Southern Command Organization of American States 16:00 PANEL DISCUSSION: TREATY OF SAN JOSE

Commander Ron van Twuijver 10:00 MULTIDIMENSIONAL SECURITY PERSPECTIVE Head of Operations Commander

Netherlands Forces in the Caribbean Ambassador Adam Blackwell Secretary of Multidimensional Security Organization of American States Commander Jean-Emmanuel Perrin Chief, Law enforcement at sea division French Forces in French West Indies

10:30 TOWARDS AN ARCHIPELAGO OF SECURITY Lieutenant Colonel Edward Croft Director, Office of National Drug and David M. Luna Money Laundering Control Policy Director, Anticrime Programs Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force (Transnational Threats and Illicit The Regional Security System Networks), INL US Department of State. 16.30 AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING 17:00 BUILDING REGIONAL OPERATIONS AND 11.00 PHOTOGRAPH AND MORNING COFFEE TRAINING CAPACITIES THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS 11:30 DUTCH MARITIME SECURITY PRIORITIES Brigadier Rocky Meade Brigadier General Dick Swijgman Deputy Chief of Defence Staff Commander Jamaica Defence Force Netherlands Forces in the Caribbean 17:30 LESSONS FROM THE RECENT PROCESS OF 12:00 THE DAMEN SEA AXE: VERSATILE AND COST- CAPACITY BUILDING AND MODERNIZATION EFFECTIVE PLATFORMS FOR NAVAL SECURITY Presenter: Wim Boerma Commodore Roderick Bowe Design & Proposal Manager Commander

Damen Shipyards Royal Bahamas Defense Force

12:30 EXPANSION OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO’S Comments invited from: CURRENT AND FUTURE ROLE IN MARITIME SECURITY Lieutenant Colonel Jerry Slijngard Chairperson Major General Kenrick Maharaj Suriname Commission Chief of Defence Staff Trinidad & Tobago Defence Force Commander Hayden Poon Executive Officer

13:00 INDRA: THE P2006T MRI A COST EFFECTIVE Trinidad & Tobago Coast Guard MARITIME AIRBORNE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM 18:00 – 18.10 CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING ADDRESS 19.30 Caribbean Dinner at Santa Barbara Hotel José Manuel Pérez-Pujazón DINNER DRESS CODE: Smart casual Eurofighter & A400M Programme Long trousers, long sleeve shirt and no jacket or tie Director Indra 13.00 SEACOP PROGRAMME: CASESTUDY FOR Main Conference Day Two THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CARIBBEAN MODEL Thursday, 14th March 2013 Tim Manhire Team Leader, 08.30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE EU SEACOP Programme 09.00 CHAIRMAN’S OPENING ADDRESS 09.10 HONDURAN COUNTER-NARCOTIC 13.30 NETWORKING LUNCH OPERATIONS ON LAND AND SEA ROUTES 14.30 COLOMBIAN COASTGUARD REGIONAL PRIORITIES AND CHALLENGES Major General Rene Osorio Chief of Joint Staff Commander Hector Ardila Rey Honduran Armed Forces Commander Rear Admiral Rigoberto Espinoza Commander 15.00 FRENCH CUSTOMS AND COAST GUARD Honduran Navy OPERATIONS: INTELLIGENCE AND ENFORCEMENT ASSETS 09.40 EXPERIENCE WITH THE NEW KING AIR B200 MARITIME PATROL AIRCRAFT IN THE SOUTHERN Philippe Griset MEDITERRANEAN SEA Commanding Officer

Caribbean Coast Guard Division José Yglesias (FWI and Fr.Guiana) Director Business Development & French Customs Caribbean Headquarters Sales Director AERODATA AG Yann Tanguy

Director 10.10 JOINT CARIBBEAN-EU PARTNERSHIP AND Caribbean Division (FWI and Fr.Guiana) SECURITY INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY BUILDING National Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigations (DNRED) Ambassador Robert Kopecký Ambassador / Head of Delegation of the 15.30 THE IMPORTANCE OF AIR ASSETS EU to Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and CAPABLE OF MEETING INTERNATIONAL Tobago, and for the Dutch Overseas OBLIGATIONS AND ENSURING EFFICIENT USE OF Countries and Territories MARITIME CAPABILITIES European External Action Service

(EEAS) Tyrone Rodulfo Group Captain Commanding Officer 10.40 REGIONAL SECURITY SYSTEM BRIEF: Trinidad & Tobago Air Guard STRENGTH THROUGH UNITY

16.00 – 16.10 CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING ADDRESS Lieutenant Colonel Edward Croft Director, Office of National Drug and Money Laundering Control Policy Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force The Regional Security System PRESENTATIONS WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE 11.10 MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING 11.30 CARICOM IMPACS REGIONAL COOPERATION One week after the conference presentations will be available for download (where the author’s Francis Forbes permission has been given) by following the Interim Executive Director following link: CARICOM - IMPACS

www.surveymonkey.com/s/21923001 12.00 DEVELOPING A COAST GUARD CAPABILITY IN ORDER TO COUNTER NARCOTIC SMUGGLING, This link will request your feedback on the PROTECT FISHERIES AND ENSURE SECURE conference before giving you the username and MARINE ENVIRONMENT password to access the presentations.

Lieutenant-Colonel Jerry Slijngard Chairperson Suriname Coast Guard Commission

12.30 ADDRESSING THE INTEGRATED PICTURE OF SECURITY

Commander David Chin Fong Commanding Officer Jamaica Defence Force Coast Guard

FOCUS DAY COUNTER‐NARCOTIC OPERATIONS www.cabsecevent.com Tuesday Morning, 12th March 2013 DEMONSTRATION DUTCH COAST GUARD 08.30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE th 09.15 CHAIRMAN’S OPENING ADDRESS Tuesday Afternoon, 12 March 2013 09.30 THE UNODC INITIATIVES IN THE CARIBBEAN

Troels Vester Regional Manager of the Container 15:00 DUTCH COAST GUARD DEMONSTRATION Control Programme (CCP) Following lunch delegates will be treated to a live United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime demonstration of the assets of the Dutch Coast Guard

10:00 PANEL DISCUSSION ON PROGRAMMES, 15:00 – Delegates gather on the sea front INITIATIVES AND COUNTER-NARCOTIC EFFORTS 15:10 – Demonstration by the Dutch CG starts

CHAIR: Tim Manhire Former Executive Director Go-fast carrying illicit contraband appears. Maritime Analysis and Operation Coast Guard assets pursue craft. Centre (Narcotics) MAOC(N) Go Fast is apprehended and boarded.

Captain Jeroen van Zaalen Assets involved: Deputy Commander • Damen Stan Patrol 4100 Cutter ‘Jaguar’ Netherlands Forces in the Caribbean • Justice Class Boston Whaler • Helicopter (AW139) Alan Pamplin • Maritime Patrol Aircraft (DASH 8) Regional Manager for Venezuela and Panama Demonstration concludes with fly-pass of air assets. Serious Organised Crime Agency Surface assets will moor in Santa Barbara Bay (SOCA) 16:30 – Guests are invited to visit on-board the Coast Vanessa Neumann Guard assets in small groups Senior Fellow Foreign Policy Research Institute 17:30 Mini Bus to Ice-Breaking drinks at the Avila Hotel 11:00 MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING ICE‐BREAKING DRINKS DRESS CODE: 11:30 NARCO-TERRORISM: EMERGING THREAT Casual/Caribbean comfortable TO THE MARITIME AND AIR OPERATIONS IN THE CARIBBEAN

Johan Obdola Chief Latin America Bureau InterPort Police

12:00 PANEL DISCUSSION ON OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES

Commander David Chin Fong Commanding Officer Jamaica Defence Force Coast Guard

Commander Wilco van Zanten

Head of Operations Dutch Caribbean Coast Guard

Commander Hayden Poon Executive Officer Trinidad & Tobago Coast Guard

13:00 BGEN SWIJGMAN HOSTED LUNCH