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Alliance of public and private sectors for crime prevention and safety

ORANJESTAD - The Minis- evolutionary trajectory of
ter of Justice and Social cybercrimes, the justice
Affairs, Mr. Rocco Tjon, at- apparatus is sharing infor-
tended the first ASIS Dutch mation and knowledge
Caribbean Conference on with their counterparts
Resilience, Cyber, and Se- abroad to develop a plan
curity. based on the acquired in-
telligence. A while ago, the
ASIS is the American Soci- Minister met with the board
ety for Industrial Security, a of the ASIS Dutch Carib-
global community of pro- bean Chapter 304, where
fessionals in the field of se- they exchanged ideas to
curity. Its task is to protect create better alliances to
human assets, properties, increase security and pro-
information, and more. tection but also prevent
cybercrimes. Often, the
Alliances of these work- expertise to counterattack
shops are beneficial but cybercrimes comes from
have risks because the other sectors. The police
police corps and private department does not al-
security organizations work ways have the knowledge
independently and have or solution to fight against
other objectives. However, these on its own. That is
according to recent stud- why alliances with other prove with these alliances.
ies, the benefits of having organizations provide the
an alliance overweight the opportunity for an INTER- “To create and keep a se-
risks. That means that these POL for example, to benefit cure community is not only
alliances can improve se- from the cyber expertise the responsibility of the
curity. and technology available police department; it re-
in the public, private, and quires broad alliances with
When talking about cy- academic sectors. the community, private
bercrimes, we refer to one sector, and other Govern-
of the most diverse kinds Research shows that suc- ment departments to cre-
of crime, especially trans- cessful alliances are based and training. At the same private security organiza- ate laws and efficient and
national crimes. These are on active and strong lead- time, the main obstacles tions due to other challeng- effective practices based
very complex and are ers and facilitators, and to efficient collaboration es within the judicial appa- on evidence". The Minister
challenging for the justice continuous communica- are the lack of information ratus, such as finance and remarked.q
apparatus. Based on the tion, structural meetings, exchange, distrust, and personnel, which can im-
misinformation. The judi-
cial apparatus needs to
work closely with private
security organizations and
share knowledge with oth-
ers on their professional ca-
pacities, It needs to provide
training and assign who is in
the best position to address
various issues and an inven-
tory of the abilities.

Minister Tjon believes in the
alliance between the po-
lice department and the