OFFICERS from the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) will take part in a graduation ceremony today upon their completion of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) airport interdiction course. 

The course curriculum included sharing best practices for the establishment of an interdiction unit, review of computer data analysis methodologies, interviewing techniques, and the conduct of seizure operations. U.S. Ambassador D. Brent Hardt is slated to offer remarks while Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee is expected to preside over the ceremony.
The event will be held at the Guyana Police Force Training Centre on Young and Camp Streets in Georgetown.
According to a statement from the U.S. Embassy in Georgetown, this programme is made possible through funding by the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative launched by President Obama at the Fifth Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago in April 2009. Working together, the United States, Guyana and other nations of the Caribbean are combating the drug trade and other transnational crimes that threaten regional security.