The dispatch of "massive" police and customs reinforcements to fight against the chronic violence affecting Guyana was announced on Friday, September 30 by the French government as part of the Security Conference in Cayenne.
"I am announcing a reinforcement of the customs staff at the airport, with a doubling of the current 27 agents"
, announced Gabriel Attal, Minister of Public Accounts in charge of customs.
Gabriel Attal participated with the Ministers of the Interior Gérald Darmanin and of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti in the conclusions of the Assises de la sécurité convened by the Territorial Collectivity of Guyana in order to find answers to the violence which continues in the department.
“Ten additional agents will be recruited by the end of 2023 at the latest and an additional team of dog handlers will be assigned to the airport by April
,” added Gabriel Attal.
This reinforcement will bring the number of dog teams to four.
The installation of
“a container scanner for the port and (of) a baggage scanner at the airport”
were also announced by Gabriel Attal.
According to him,
“the device has already been delivered to the port of Cayenne and will be operational in the coming weeks”
.
Cocaine Hub
In order to strengthen the means of arresting gangs raging in Guyana,
"a branch
(of police officers from the)
Raid will be created in Cayenne in the first half of 2023"
, announced for his part Gérald Darmanin, promising that the mobile gendarmerie squadron arrived on September 7
“will be perpetuated”
.
To this squadron will be added
"four new gendarmerie brigades: two river brigades for the Maroni and the Oyapock and two road"
, he continued.
These brigades
“will be installed as soon as Guyana has premises to accommodate them”
.
Finally, to fight against drug trafficking -
"a real scourge"
, according to Gérald Darmanin -,
"fifty police and gendarmes will arrive as reinforcements at the airport so that 100% of flights are checked.
Today, one in three flights is.
Since the beginning of the year, 30 homicides have occurred in this department of 300,000 inhabitants.
Guyana is known to be a hub for supplying France with drugs, particularly cocaine.