HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE / DISASTER RELIEF FOCUS DAY MORNING SITE VISIT 26 March 2019
This first day of activities is Sites visited during the morning: dedicated to Humanitarian q Visit to the Caribbean Disaster and Emergency Management Agency Assistance and Disaster Relief (HA/ (CDEMA) including a visit to the multi-national coordination cell located DR) coordination and operations. in the Barbados (MNCCC). This facility acts as a coordination hub during The day is split into two parts incidents and was recently ‘tested’ during Hurricane Isaac. which includes morning site q Visit to the Integrated Coastal Surveillance System (ICSS) located at visits followed by an afternoon of the District ‘A’ Police Station. This facility monitors Barbados’ maritime presentations which will put those space and acts as a joint coordination centre for maritime operations. into a wider content. This day is q Visit to the Regional Security System (RSS) Headquarters located at both an invaluable scene-setter Paragon. The RSS operates two C-26 aircrafts recently refurbished with and ice-breaker providing the US and Canadian funding to deliver hi-tech surveillance capabilities. opportunity to visit facilities and The C-26 also take part in the region’s humanitarian assistance and meet colleagues and peers. disaster relief operations.
SITE VISIT MORNING: 26 March 2019 0730 GATHER IN THE HOTEL LOBBY 0800 COACHES DEPART HILTON FOR ICSS 0815 COACHES ARRIVE AT ICSS VISIT ICSS 0930 COACHES DEPART ICSS FOR CDEMA 0945 COACHES ARRIVE AT CDEMA VISIT CDEMA AND THE MNCCC 1045 COACHES DEPART CDEMA FOR AIRPORT 1115 COACHES ARRIVE AT AIRPORT VISIT AIRCRAFT OF THE RSS 1230 COACHES RETURN TO HOTEL 1300 NETWORKING LUNCH
ABOUT THE ORGANISATIONS INVOLVED Caribbean Disaster and Integrated Coastal Regional Security Emergency Management Surveillance System System (RSS) Agency (CDEMA) (ICSS) RSS operations consist ICSS provides a coastal surveillance of maritime, air, and land radar system that monitors the activities. Each component entire coastline of Barbados, and plays a crucial role in the success CDEMA is an inter-regional supportive contributes to the safety and security of all RSS operations. Additionally network of independent emergency of coastal areas. each component is dependent on units throughout the Caribbean one another for mission success. All region. Formed on September 1, 2005 three have different capabilities but as the Caribbean Disaster Emergency as a team they provide the RSS with Response Agency (CDERA) it unmatched capability on land, sea, underwent a name change to CDEMA and air. in September 2009.
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1355 CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS 1545 AFTERNOON TEA & NETWORKING Commander Mark Peterson, Commander, Barbados 1615 REGIONAL SECURITY SYSTEM: CONVERGENCE OF Coast Guard SECURITY AND DISASTER RELIEF 1400 CDEMA: CARIBBEAN DISASTER EMERGENCY Overvi ew of the RSS Mission to ensure the stability MANAGEMENT AGENCY and well-being of Member States through mutual Overview of the work of CDEMA and the multi- cooperation national coordination cell located in the Barbados Rec ent experiences in coordination and cooperation (MNCCC) The air assets of the RSS, as well as other Le ssons learnt from Hurricane Isaac in order to capabilities improve future coordination, communication and Fu ture plans and ambitions for the organisation information-sharing Captain (N) Errington SHURLAND, Executive Director, Rol e of international partners and NGOs in future Regional Security System Headquarters incidents 1645 MULTI-AGENCY RISK REDUCTION & RESPONSE TO Elizabeth Riley, Deputy Executive Director, Caribbean CRISIS, DISASTER & SECURITY EVENTS Disaster Emergency Management Agency Oppo rtunities for cross-sector partnerships & 1430 THE ROLE OF THE ARMED FORCES DURING THE improvements in the future 2016 ECUADORIAN EARTHQUAKE Developing an integrated method of risk management Ecua dorean Armed Forces deployed 10,000 that works across risk reduction and response Soldiers in response to a devastating 7.8 magnitude The importance of a comprehensive assessment earthquake in 2016 - Assisting victims in the worst and management framework: a RAID methodology effected provinces, providing humanitarian aid and (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) across medical services the risk cycle Air Assets deployed including C-295M and Cessna Enhancing effective civil-military cooperation essential aircraft to transport troops to the port cities of Manta to achieving a rapid and aligned disaster response and Guayaquil as well as Boeing 727 to fly Troops to Hannah Pathak, Deputy CEO, Rescue Global the cities of Latacunga, Jumandy, and Esmeraldas, and two Bell 206 helicopters to bring medical supplies 1715 THEMATIC PANEL DISCUSSION to the cities of Manta and Pedernales NATIONAL PLANNING AND CROSS SECTOR Coordination of international assistance from Peru RESPONSE TO DISASTER RELIEF and Colombia as well as the delegation that came A discussion on the respective roles of government, from other nations militaries, the NGO community, the private sector, and academia in disaster risk reduction and response, and Capitan (Navy Res.), Mr. Jaime Dávalos, Advisor to the how cross sector collaboration can be more effective. Minister of Defence, Ecuador MoD Moderated by: 1500 LOW COST SMA (SPECIAL MISSION AIRCRAFT) Air Marshal Sir Christopher Harper, Former Director-General SOLUTIONS FOR THE CARICOM REGION of NATO’s International Military Staff and Managing Director, Background and Business Model CH4C Global Ltd Aerovation - An Engineering Company Discussants: Capabilities and facilities Brigadier General Peter Jan de Vin, Commander, Technical Proposition – Thinking Outside the Box Netherlands Forces in the Caribbean Financial Proposition – Maximum Flexibility Major General Rocky Meade, Chief of Defence Staff, Jamaica Operational Capabilities Defence Force Training, Maintenance and Logistics Support Brigadier John Ridge, Chief Joint Force Operations, Vince Macri, Senior Vice President, Aerovation Inc. UK Joint Force Headquarters Captain (N) Errington SHURLAND, Executive Director, 1515 UK GLOBAL RESPONSE TO CRISIS AND LESSONS Regional Security System Headquarters FOR THE CARIBBEAN Major Michael Jones, Executive Director (Ag), CARICOM Overview of UK response mechanism for HA/DR in IMPACS the Caribbean theatre Elizabeth Riley, Deputy Executive Director, Caribbean Lessons from Irma and Maria but more recently from Disaster Emergency Management Agency Hurricane Isaac ‘near miss’ as a training exercise for future engagements 1800 CHAIRMAN’S SUMMARY REMARKS Coordinating with international partners and Commander Mark Peterson, Commande sharing information Barbados Coast Guard Brigadier John Ridge, Chief Joint Force Operations, UK Joint Force Headquarters 1815 FREE TIME AND OPPORTUNITY TO FRESHEN UP 1845 ICE-BREAKING COCKTAIL RECEPTION
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0800 MORNING COFFEE & REGISTRATION Operational Capabilities Project Overview 0830 OPENING CEREMONY Colonel Clinton O’Neill, Branch Head of Operations, Plans CONFERENCE DIRECTOR & Intelligence, Armed Forces of Malta Alexander Stephenson, Director, José Yglesias Lozada, Director Business Development & CABSEC and SAMSEC Conferences Sales, Aerodata CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS Commander Mark Peterson, Commander, Barbados 1230 CARICOM IMPACS REGIONAL COOPERATION Coast Guard Introduction to IMPACS and its sub agencies HOST NATION MINISTERIAL KEYNOTE - Regi onal Intelligence Fusion Centre (RIFC) The Honourable Mia Mottley QC, MP for Saint Michael - Joint Regional Communications Centre (JRCC) based in North East, Prime Minister of Barbados Barbados - Strategic research program and project implementation 0900 OFFICIAL CONFERENCE PHOTOGRAPH: HEADS OF Mobilization of resources to support the collective fight DELEGATIONS against serious crime and to counter other security threats in the Region 0915 HOST NATION ADDRESS: Michael Jones, Executive Director (Ag), CARICOM IMPACS THE BARBADOS DEFENCE FORCE’S READINESS STRENGTHENING 1300 HEAD OF DELEGATION THREAT RADAR FORUM The evolving multidimensional threat environment Operational capacities development Future regional alliance approaches Colonel Glyne Grannum, Chief of Staff, Barbados Defence Force Format: 0945 ELTA’S REVOLUTIONARY HOLOGRAPHIC COASTAL The moderator will invite the Heads of Delegation RADAR SURVEILLANCE SOLUTION TO MEET seated in the audience around the conference top CURRENT & FUTURE NEEDS table to share their top concerns, priorities and scenarios that are being planned for – contributions Capt. Navy (Ret.) Benyamin Hod (Pinky), Maritime will also be invited from the floor. Expert, Coastal Surveillance, ELTA Systems Ltd Objectives: 1015 CHILEAN MARITIME SECURITY OPERATIONS To help identify and define the key challenges Rear Admiral Eric Solar Olavarría, Director of Security experiences by nations and organisations operating and Maritime Operations, Chilean Navy in the Americas this session will see heads of delegations succinctly state the key threats on the 1045 MORNING COFFEE & NETWORKING horizon as they perceive it and how they will affect their national interest. This session will be valuable to: 1130 JAMAICA DEFENCE FORCE’S STRATEGIC DEFENCE Id entify common and shared challenges to help steer REVIEW: EXPANSION OF THE FORCE future collaborative conversations throughout the Jamaica Defence Force’s Strategic Defence Review conference (SDR) and the imminent expansion of the Force to Provide strategic notice to other nations on which include the recent establishment of the Caribbean threats are concerning their colleagues in the Military Academy and the build-out of the Force’s hemisphere cyber domain capability Hel p to identify nations that have previously dealt The Jamaica Defence Force aims at not just reviewing with these challenges and how they overcame them and developing internal operational and training Raise awareness to industry of how the military processes but also seeks to work closely with perceive the threats in the region to allow them to its regional and international partners for the suggest technical solutions implementation of standardized operational and Allo w delegations to state how the conference can help training procedures so as to enhance regional security them achieve deliverables and identify meaningful and eliminate illicit activities occurring through our outcomes for CABSEC/ SAMSEC 2019 as well as areas region for deeper consideration in 2020 Major General Rocky Meade, Chief of Defence Staff, Moderated by: Jamaica Defence Force Air Marshal Sir Christopher Harper, Former Director- General of NATO’s International Military Staff and 1200 AIRBORNE MARITIME SURVEILLANCE – BRACING Managing Director, CH4C Global Ltd FOR TODAY’S CHALLENGES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN ALL DELEGATIONS ARE ANTICIPATED TO Why Maritime Security PARTICIPATE IN THIS OPEN CONVERSATION Zones of Competencies Today‘s Challenges 1330 NETWORKING LUNCH Key Capabilities Requirements
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1430 JOINT INTERAGENCY TASK FORCE SOUTH 1615 AFTERNOON TEA & NETWORKING Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF) South Detects and Monitors illicit trafficking in the air and maritime domains 1645 CARIBBEAN REGIONAL DRUG LAW ENFORCEMENT to facilitate International and Interagency Interdiction TRAINING CENTRE (REDTRAC) and Apprehension. REDTRAC is a Division of the Ministry of National Recent detection and monitoring operations Security, Jamaica throughout our Joint Operations Area A regional, residential training hub charged with the Recent successes with regards to the interdiction of development and delivery of courses to meet the illicit trafficking in support of national and partner training needs of law enforcement, drug-control, nation security border-control and financial-control agencies across Future threats and how to face those threats the English-speaking Caribbean Rear Admiral Stephanie Keck, Deputy Director, JIATF- Major George Benson, Director Principal, Caribbean South Regional Drug Law Enforcement Training Centre (REDTRAC) 1230 UK DEFENCE ENGAGEMENT IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN 1715 DAY ONE CLOSING KEYNOTE: UK Defence Engagement Strategy and Plans in Latin MARITIME SECURITY IN THE CARIBBEAN America and Caribbean Identifying needs for long-term solutions to organise UK deployed network in the region crime and transnational organised crime within the Future engagement opportunities region Importance of South-South cooperation Commodore Rhett Hatcher, Military Head International Capacity building initiatives within the region, Security Directorate, Security Policy and Operations, UK including bi-lateral coordination and cooperation Ministry of Defence Initiatives of UNODC in these areas and the potential 1530 MISSION OF THE FRENCH ARMED FORCES IN GUIANA for future cooperation and initiatives (FAG) HAVE IN SOUTH AMERICA José Vila Del Castillo, Representative, Regional Office for Mission of the French Forces in Guiana – including Central America and the Caribbean, UNODC protection of the Ariane launcher (Guiana Space Centre), protection against illegal fishing and gold 1730 CHAIRMAN’S DAY ONE SUMMARY REMARKS mining Commander Mark Peterson, Commander, Barbados Relations and cooperation with neighbours in Brazil, Coast Guard Suriname, Guyana and Colombia 1800 PRE-DINNER DRINKS RECEPTION Lieutenant Colonel Olivier LECLERCQ, Head of the International Relations Division, French Forces in French 1930 GALA DINNER Guiana Venue: Barbados Defence Force Officers’ Mess 1545 PANEL DISCUSSION: Dress code: Smart Casual PARTNER NATIONS OPERATIONS AND ACTIVITIES IN THE CARIBBEAN Rear Admiral Pat DeQuattro (or deputy), Director, JIATF- South Rear Admiral Peter J. Brown, Commander, Seventh Coast Guard District, U.S. Coast Guard Commodore Rhett Hatcher, Military Head International Security Directorate, Security Policy and Operations, UK Ministry of Defence Brigadier General Peter Jan de Vin, Commander, Netherlands Forces in the Caribbean Rear Admiral René-Jean Crignola, Commander, French Forces in the French West Indies
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0800 MORNING COFFEE & REGISTRATION 1100 MORNING COFFEE & NETWORKING
0815 CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS 1130 MARITIME AND COASTAL SECURITY OF THE Lieutenant Commander Mark Peterson, Commander, CARIBBEAN BASIN Barbados Coast Guard General concept of the operations of the Mexican Navy Conduction of Operations by the Mexican Navy. 0830 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: THE ROLE OF THE IADB IN International cooperation and coordination REGIONAL COOPERATION AND COORDINATION The Caribbean and drugs The role of the Inter-American Defense Board in Security Challenges Caribbean and South America Initiatives to Combat Threats Developing a multi-dimensional approach to security, Vice Admiral Juan José Padilla Olmos, General Coordinator of and the challenges Naval Aeronautics, Mexican Secretariat of the Navy - SEMAR How IADB can advance the fight against Transnational Threats 1200 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO SECURITY OVERVIEW What the challenges of the future look like and how Coast guard roles and functions IADB can help transformation of defence capability to Aid to civil power confront them Regional context – vessel movements Trinidad & Tobago area of maritime jurisdiction Major General Luis Rodríguez Bucio (Mexican Army), Chairman of the Council of Delegates, Inter-American Defense Smuggling routes – into Trinidad and Tobago Board Challenges to interdiction Local action against smugglers 0900 COLOMBIAN AIRFORCE OPERATIONS Captain (N) Douglas Archer, Commander, Coast Guard, Trinidad Work to exercise and maintain control of Colombia’s and Tobago Defence Force airspace and defend its sovereignty, territorial integrity 1230 COLOMBIAN NAVY’S ROLE IN HEMISPHERIC and constitutional order COUNTER-NARCOTIC OPERATIONS Update on one of the largest American air forces and The importance of hemispheric security and the it’s increased roles in the fight against narco-terrorism sharing of naval intelligence among partner nations Brigadier General Pablo Enrique García, Commander of the Air engaged in countering transnational threats – in Operations Command, Colombian Air Force particular narcotics – in the Caribbean and South American region 0930 HEZBOLLAH IN LATIN AMERICA Colombia’s global role and participation of the naval Overview of incidents reported in open sources relating ship 7 DE AGOSTO in NATO’s counter-piracy Operation to terrorism in South America OCEAN SHIELD in 2015 to Colombia’s new role as a Examination of the actors present in South America or global partner of NATO in contact with the region The operations and strategic plans for the Colombian Narco-terrorism in the Americas Navy in the Caribbean theatre including naval intelligence Analysis of the levels of violent crime in Latin America cooperation and partnerships through CIMCON and the Caribbean and trends over time Captain Federico Sierra Zuluaga, Commander of the Anti- Em erging trends and threats and the cyber security aspect Narcotics Task Force No. 73, Colombian Navy Johan Obdola, President, International Organization for Security and Intelligence - IOSI 1300 BELIZE DEFENCE FORCE 1000 HEAD OF DELEGATION BOARDROOM CONVERSATION: Efforts to increase air and maritime border surveillance DEALING WITH THE IMPACT OF MIGRATION AND of borders UNDERSTANDING CRISIS INCIDENTS Challenges of information sharing with other nations Political and economic changes, evolving security situations, and organisations climate change, natural disasters and other global and Equipment sought to provide cost-effective solutions transnational drivers mean that greater attention must be Brigadier General Steven Ortega, Commander, Belize Defence paid to migration flows, narco-criminals and terrorism. Force Format: 1330 NETWORKING LUNCH Led by an expert in Latin American and Caribbean security, scenarios will be presented and questions asked allowing for 1430 ROYAL ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES POLICE comment, question and debate to take place between the Heads FORCE ACTIVITIES AND CHALLENGES FACED BOTH of Delegation at the conference – contributions will also be open AT HOME AND IN THE REGION to the floor. Efforts in combating human trafficking both locally, Outcomes: regionally and internationally This session will present scenarios and throw greater light Local crime and violence, recent trends and links to on their impact on various nations in the region as well as broader regional threats understand what effects nations are already experiencing and Information sharing and cooperation with other what plans they have in place. The discussion will also highlight national and international agencies current and potential security threats derived from natural as Colin John, Commissioner of Police (Ag.), well as political and economical situations. Royal St Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force Discussion Leader: Vanessa Neumann, President and founder, Asymmetrica
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1500 SEAPORT COOPERATION PROJECT (SEACOP) 1600 AFTERNOON TEA & NETWORKING SEACOP is a programme to train and equip inter-agency units to identify, search and interdict all forms of 1630 DAY TWO CLOSING KEYNOTE ADDRESS maritime trafficking. 1700 CLOSING CEREMONY SEACOP improves the capacity of law enforcement agencies in monitoring maritime trafficking and detecting CHAIRMAN’S SUMMARY illicit maritime cargoes on-board suspect vessels. Access Commander Mark Peterson, Commander, Barbados to databases and regional and inter-regional networks of Coast Guard partners is designed to move law enforcement towards PRESENTATION OF AWARDS an intelligence-led approach that will help reduce the Colonel Glyne Grannum, Chief of Staff, Barbados trafficking of cocaine. Defence Force EU SEACOP CARRIBBEAN UPDATE CONFERENCE DIRECTOR Karen Clarke, Caribbean Regional Coordinator, Alexander Stephenson, Director, EU SEACOP CABSEC and SAMSEC Conferences EU SEACOP EXPANSION IN SOUTH AMERICA Juan Martinez, Regional Coordinator for Latin and South 1730 END OF CONFERENCE America, EU SEACOP
1530 UK BORDER FORCE UK Border Force funds to help increase capabilities and provide both training and equipment to law enforcement in the Caribbean and South America Jayne Cutler, Regional Manager - Western Caribbean, Border Force International, UK Home Office
“It was a very “Great Conference. It is informative conference, always good to get the knowledge was received main players all in one in regards to the efforts place to discuss common and activities in the drug issues and provide trafficking trade in the possible solutions” region” - Regional Security System, - Belize Defence Force, Past Speaker Past Speaker
“This is a great way “Excellent opportunity to share information, to exchange concepts discuss issues, among countries of the network and zero Caribbean Sea; we need in on exceptionally to improve Maritime challenging issues. Security in our región” Exceptionally great!” - Colombian Navy, - H.M. Customs Cayman Past Speaker Islands, Past attendee
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