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Posted: Tuesday 3 December, 2019 at 4:43 PM

Law Enforcement Officers now better equipped to detect fraud

By: Stanford Conway, SKNVibes.com
    BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – THIRTY members of the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force and the Immigration Department have recently completed a training package that provided them with the knowledge and ability to better identify fraudulent documents and human trafficking.

    The two-day training course, Prevention and Detection of Fraud – was held at the Police Training School on November 26 and 27.

    The course was organised by the Embassy of the United States of America’s Regional Security Office (RSO) and facilitated by Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) Special Agent Ashley Wright, Criminal Fraud Investigator Rodney Holder and Investigative Assistant Richard Smith.

    According to a police press release, Special Agent Wright said that the DSS had worked along with immigration officials, the police and other travel industry authorities to help them identify patterns in fraud.
     
    “Over the past two days, what we taught was the basics of human trafficking – how to identify it, how to respond to it as a first point of contact,” Wright explained.

    “Since travel documents have become more secure, the likelihood of somebody altering or creating a fake document is lowered. So, it’s more likely that people would just pretend to just be somebody else using a valid document,” she added.

    The Special Agent declared that they wanted to teach their law enforcement colleagues how to spot an individual who is pretending to be someone else.
     
    She noted that over the past few years there have been a few notable cases in which the DSS has worked with authorities in various countries of the Eastern Caribbean on impersonators and fraudulent documents.

    This year, similar training was also conducted in St. Vincent and The Grenadines, Grenada, St. Lucia and Barbados.
     
    “Hands-on training like this – distinguishing fraudulent documents from real ones, identifying imposters – not only makes our countries more secure, but in the end can save the lives of individuals who really need help,” Wright said.
     
     
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