SENEGAL: NARCOTICS SEIZURES AND OTHER CRIME DATA FOR 2006

UNCLAS DAKAR 000649 SIPDIS SIPDIS STATE FOR INL/AAE, AF/RSA AND AF/W LAGOS FOR DEA E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: SNAR ASEC KCRM SG SUBJECT: SENEGAL: NARCOTICS SEIZURES AND OTHER CRIME DATA FOR 2006 AND EARLY 2007 ¶1. On March 16, Leopold Diouf, the Director General for National Security in the Ministry of Interior and Local Government, released crime statistics for 2006. He noted that Senegalese police seized 29 kilograms of cocaine; 8,396 tons of marijuana, and 129,232 capsules of various psychotropic drugs. Diouf claimed that the police made 980 drug-related arrests. ¶2. Other arrests included 53 alleged murderers, 500 armed robbers, 73 burglars, and four car thieves. Diouf said that police responded to 55,114 calls in 2006 -- compared to 47,452 in 2005. ¶3. On March 17 or 18, 2007, police arrested three Mozambicans attempting to smuggle four kilograms of cocaine from Cape Verde to Mozambique via the Delta flight from Dakar to Johannesburg. The three were identified as Mercia Mugnumbe, born in 1977; Humberto Munguambe, born in 1979; and Jose Lavio Carlos, born in 1982. JACKSON