Inspector Carlos Manuel Almeida Costa
- Deputy Coordinator of the Coordination and Integrated Border Management Cabinet
- Homeland Security System, Portugal
Professional experience:
2023-2024 – Judiciary Police inspector, working in Homeland Security System, as Deputy Coordinator – Border Integreted Management and Coordination Cabinet
1994-2023 – inspector of the Foreigners and Borders Service, with special emphasis on:
• Exercise of national audit functions within the scope of the Advisory Council for the Protection of Ports and Maritime Transport;
• Participation in the implementation and development of the Crisis Office at the Lages EM Summit in 2003;
• Involvement in FRONTEX projects/activities since 2007;
• Integration as a Focal Point – Niamey Declaration.
• Transversal knowledge of all activities carried out in the Foreigners and Borders Service, in particular in the activities carried out in the first and second line at national airports and ports, as well as in all activities carried out in regional delegations and sea ports;
1990 (September) to 1993 (October) – coordination functions in the Tax Guard, within the scope of investigation and inspection actions in the area of tax and customs crime;
1988-1990 – Portuguese Air Force.
Academic/professional qualifications:
Degree in European Studies, specializing in Law and Economics;
Debriefer Expert course, certified by the European agency FRONTEX;
Participation, within the scope of the FRONTEX agency, in the preparation of the Aptitude Program for Future Border Guards and Interview Experts, focusing on European Legislation and Asylum;
Training in the Legal Regime of Contraventions, Document Fraud, Air Escorts and Border Risk Analysis.
Sessions
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Trends in Drugs, Trafficking, SOC and Terrorism – impact across continents
Drugs on the streets seems to be the insoluble societal problem of our age. It destroys lives and permeates every part of society. It makes law breakers of otherwise law-abiding citizens and through their dealers puts them in direct contact with the criminal underbelly of society.
Drugs are the invisible glue that connects organised crime with terrorists, with the city slicker that likes to ‘do a line’ and with the student on campus, just starting out on their life story. Along the way it corrupts officials and politicians, and sucks billions out of the economies of every country it touches. Terrorists gain an unlimited source of revenue and expertise in illicit transfer and laundering of proceeds from illicit transactions.
In this session we will look at any new trends in drug trafficking and look to share any new policy developments and measures that have been successful in countering this evil trade.