Brunei delegation for Asean police meet
By M K Anwar

Brunei delegates attending the conference in Manila, Philippines

The Royal Brunei Police Force will be attending the annual Asean Heads of Police Conference in Manila, Philippines.

This year's conference, which starts today, will finish on September 12, 2003.

Yesterday afternoon a delegation of 10 senior police officers and one senior officer from the Narcotics Control Bureau left Brunei for Manila to attend the conference.

The Brunei delegation is led by Pg Ahmad bin Pg Haji Damit, the Deputy Commissioner of Police.

A total of 9 meeting agendas will be discussed at the conference.

It will include terrorism, drug smuggling, development of the ASEANAPOL System database, cyber crime, commercial crime and trans-national crime.

Other agendas that will be discussed include cooperation and understanding in crime prevention and the exchange programmes for officers and training between all Asean police force.

The main aim of the conference is to strengthen relations and co-operation amongst the police forces in Asean (ASEANAPOL) in the police field and mainly on the issues of crime prevention in the Asean region.

Last year the conference was held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin