Strategic Plan
The Strategic Plan covers the period 2022-2027, which coincides with the conclusion of the 2017-2022 Strategic Plan.
OCO is forecasting changes in international movements and anticipates the following developments:
- The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic which will endure for some time
- Constantly evolving geo-political and socio-economic relationships impacting trade, including recent Chinese initiatives in the Pacific
- Greater international harmonisation of systems, policies and protocols, including intelligence sharing
- Increased workload for Customs
- Increased volume and speed of movement of goods and people
- Streamlining of Customs processes through digitisation and other mechanisms
- Continuing increase in e-commerce
- Enhanced data collection
- Increased costs
- Increased intelligence sharing
- Emerging players in the shipping and goods movement industry
- Enhanced capacity to track and monitor goods
- Better cooperation between countries
OCO anticipates changes in the movement of illicit goods as follows:
- Increased contraband movement (drugs, counterfeit goods, money laundering, smuggling)
- Increase in new and innovative approaches by criminals to continue their illicit activities
- Increasing evasion of duties and taxes
- Increasing difficulty in detection of illicit goods due to increasingly sophisticated methods of concealment
- Increase in cyber-enabled criminal activity, cybercrime and related threats
OCO will strive to take active steps towards future readiness which is critical to the success of the Organisation and its Members. This Strategic Plan sets out the actions required to achieve this.
Priority 2
Law Enforcement and Border Security
Overall Objective : To enhance regional cooperation in compliance and border security.
Enhance coordinated border management:
- Enhance intelligence and enforcement information sharing capability amongst Member administrations
- Strengthen coordination between border and law enforcement agencies ‘through joint policy and program development and joint operational exercises.
- Command and control training
- Multi agency Multinational desk top exercises on trans national crime.
- Head of Law enforcement conference
- Border Fundamentals Management Course ABF (Small Craft Search Course)
Strengthen intelligence-driven risk management capacity:
- Risk management training to assist with profiling and targeting on suspicious trade and travel.
- Training on Passenger Name Record (PNR) & API (Advance Passenger Information)
Combat transnational organised crime, including Cyber crime:
- Promote the information sharing arrangement and encourage members collaboration
- Coordinate and facilitate collaborations with law enforcement agencies to disrupt transnational organised crime
- Improve law enforcement capacity on IPR border protection
- Facilitate and develop the use of computer forensics
- Encourage OPSCA use and develop expertise through training
- Train members on the use of modern information sharing tools eg. OPSCA, PICs, IONICs, nComm and APAN
- Maritime Domain Awareness Training
- Delivery of CCES Enforcement Modules to achieve enhanced contemporary methods of regulatory compliance and enforcement.
- X-ray Image training
- Health and Environment Targeting operation on tobacco with WHO