Aseannapol To Enhance Database To Fight Crime
By Narissa Noor & Hj Minor Absah

Bandar Seri Begawan - The challenges faced by law enforcement agencies today and in the future remain a daunting task and these new developments come very timely as we witness the increasing trend of transgression of crimes beyond borders that are compounded by the advent of technology.

This was said by the guest of honour, Supt Haji Majid bin Haji Awg Daniel, at the opening of the 19th Aseanapol Database System Technical Committee meeting.

The Aseanapol Database System, also referred to as e-ADS, was launched at the 26th Asean Chief of Police meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2006 and began operations in all member countries the same year and leverages on the already developed 1-24/7 Interpol Communication System.

The Royal Brunei Police Force is currently hosting the ADSTC meeting, attended by delegates from member countries of Aseanapol, as well as two officers from the Interpol Secretary General Department in Lyon, France.

"The successful implementation of the project no doubt sign' fies the strong resolve and commitment orAseanapol as a regional police grouping in its effort to promote police cooperation, particularly in the fields of police information and intelligence exchange in Asean," said the guest of honour.

Supt Haji Majid bin Haji Awg. Daniel, the Director of Administration and Finance at the Royal Brunei Police Force, in his opening remarks, also touched on the nascent I-Link project, which will hopefully enhance and improve the current system.

He also hopes that these initiatives will provide value-added services to users, particularly in assisting and strengthening their ground operational capabilities in the region. But the system, he said, will lack bite and strength if there are no commitments from member countries to populate the database accordingly.

"After two years of its implementation, the time has come for the ADSTC to reflect and measure not only how much data is in the system but also how effective or how many hits we have had in relation to queries that were made by member countries from the system," he said.

This new system will replace its predecessor through the utilisation or the Internet to allow for a faster and cheaper means of sharing information regionally. In this meeting, they will deliberate ways of fully utilising and possibly improving the existing system, as well as the joint effort needed in updating the data found through both Interpol and Aseanapol. The outcome of this meeting will be put forward at the 28th Asean Chief of Police meeting, scheduled to be held in Brunei this May.

The three-day meeting, which began on Monday at the Rizqun International Hotel in Gadong, was chaired by Supt Amirrudin Haji Junaidi, the Head Secretariat at Commissioner of Police office and Secretary of Interpol Brunei. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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