On the 19th of June 2024, Rear Admiral Joshua Lasky, recently appointed Deputy Director of the Joint Interagency Task Force – South (JIATF-S), visited the Centre’s headquarters in Lisbon.
The meeting, hosted by the Centre’s Head of Operations, served to reinforce the institutional cooperation between the two institutions, to discuss the most recent trends pertaining to maritime drug trafficking, and to formulate new approaches for the foreseeable future to mitigate the threats posed by transnational organised crime groups.
The JIATF-S, a partner of MAOC-N since its inception in 2007, leverages all-domain capabilities to target, detects and monitors illicit drug trafficking within the Joint Operating Area (JOA), facilitating interdiction and apprehension to reduce the flow of drugs and degrade & dismantle Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs).
