KUANTAN, Oct 19 — The Sultan Ahmad Shah Maritime Academy (AMSAS) continues to gain international recognition with Interpol using the infrastructure at the centre for its project Litmus-CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives).
AMSAS Education and Training director, First Admiral Maritime Datuk Mohd Taha Ibrahim said the five-year cooperation programme involves 24 Pakistani police officers, six senior officials of the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) and two Malaysian Maritime enforcement officers (MMEA).
“Previously, Interpol had used AMSAS as a place to conduct courses for officials from within the country only.
“But this time, for the first time they are using the facilities available at AMSAS to organise a course that involves enforcement officers from abroad with all expenses paid by them,” he told reporters after launching the Interpol project Litmus-CRBNE here, today.
The programme is an exercise on enforcement operations that aims to increase the abilities and skills of the authorities in taking initial action on cases, to identify, to investigate, alleged misconduct in the use of chemical agents.
In addition, it also enables the authorities to detect and identify the presence of toxic and explosive chemical agents abused by criminals and criminal gangs.
Mohad Taha said AMSAS’ selection as the venue for the course was in line with the AMSAS becoming a training centre under the Malaysian Technical Cooperation Programme and as a public training institute.
It is also consistent with AMSAS’ project to become the leading Maritime Centre of Excellence in the region, he said.
In addition to Interpol, AMSAS also hopes to work with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to conduct joint training sessions in the future. — Bernama
