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FCO Drugs and Crime Fund

Premium beer or premium drugs?
Diplomatic efforts are backed up, where appropriate, by funds for bilateral and multilateral project work from the FCO Drugs and Crime Fund (DCF). The fund has been set at £9.4 million for financial years 04/05 and 05/06. Of this amount, £5.8 million will support UK activity in Afghanistan, while the remainder will be spent on drugs and crime projects elsewhere.

How and where do we spend the DCF?
  • Secondment of a UK EU pre-accession adviser to Bulgaria to help set up a drugs intelligence unit and launch a National Drugs Strategy.
  • Provision of a cold storage shed to allow searches of lorries at Kapitan Andreevo in Bulgaria – the only entry point for TIRs from Turkey to Europe. The project cost £150,000 and resulted in seizures of 239 kilos of heroin there in July 2002 – before it had even been officially opened – already an immense return on investment.
  • Provision of intelligence analysis software to Turkish law enforcement. This has proved extremely successful and there is ongoing co-operation on the outcome of the data between the Embassy and the Turkish law enforcement agencies.
  • Secondment of a drugs advisor to the Antiguan National Drugs Squad.
  • Provision of drug detection equipment to Bolivian Customs to back up previous training given on vehicle profiling.
  • Container profiling courses carried out in several countries including Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela and India.
  • Domestic "demand reduction" project run with the assistance of an NGO called MENTOR in Colombia.
  • Drafting of model legislation to help the Cambodian authorities tackle Child Pornography.
  • Construction of a vehicle inspection shed in Turkmenistan to help local authorities inspect vehicles suspected of carrying illicit goods.
  • Several rounds of anti-money laundering training for the Turkish Authorities.
  • Provision of a specialist Customs Advisor to the Romanian Government.
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