A THREE-DAY training workshop on Financial Investigations and Asset Recovery for State lawyers, police prosecutors, police and financial investigators from the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) will conclude today.

The event was a collaboration between the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Guyana Police Force’s Special Organised Crime Unit.

Other agencies that participated are the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU).

The workshop is facilitated by the Barbados-based Regional Security System (RSS)’s Asset Recovery Unit (ARU) at the Guyana Police Force Officers’ Training Centre (OTC) on Camp Road.

The ARU provides technical assistance on mentoring of financial investigations, legal advice, training and capacity-building to law enforcement, criminal justice practitioners, financial investigators and analysts lobbying and advocating on policy and legislative framework.

The training also focuses on fundamentals of money laundering and asset recovery issues and challenges.

Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan; Commissioner of Police, Leslie James and ARU’s Director, Grenville Williams, made brief opening remarks while Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions (ADPP), Dionne McCammon, gave an overview of the training.
The training is another in a series of training workshops by the DPP’s Chambers from 2013 to present in collaboration with the ARU and USA-based National Centre for State Courts (NCSC).