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Partners & network

No single service can watch an ocean.

The TPC at the centre; the services, the anchor partner and the regional and international organisations in orbit around it.

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  • Member services
  • Anchor partner
  • Regional
  • International

Directory

Tier by tier

Member services

  • SAPS

    South African Police Service

    Member service, including the DPCI (Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation) and SANEB. The secretariat is currently under SAPS management.

  • Polícia da República de Moçambique and SERNIC

    Member service, with SERNIC, the Serviço Nacional de Investigação Criminal.

  • Tanzania Police Force and DCEA

    Member service, with the DCEA (Drug Control and Enforcement Authority).

Anchor partner

  • United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

    Founding support. Southern Route Partnership under the Indian Ocean Forum on Maritime Crime; Global Maritime Crime Programme.

Regional

  • SARPCCO

    Southern African Regional Police Chiefs Cooperation Organisation

    Regional police-chiefs organisation. Took part in the June 2025 technical meeting on West African syndicates at the Tshwane Police Academy.

  • INTERPOL RB HARARE

    INTERPOL Regional Bureau Harare

    The Head of the Regional Bureau committed to facilitate the expansion of INTERPOL policing capabilities to the TPC and the region.

  • RMIFC

    Regional Maritime Information Fusion Centre, Madagascar

    Maritime information fusion centre — with RCOC, proof of the fusion model in the maritime domain.

  • RCOC

    Regional Coordination Operations Centre, Seychelles

    Regional maritime operations centre — with RMIFC, proof of the fusion model in the maritime domain.

  • SADC

    SADC structures

    Structures of the Southern African Development Community.

  • Eastern Africa Police Chiefs Cooperation Organisation

    Regional police-chiefs organisation. Took part in the June 2025 technical meeting on West African syndicates.

International

  • INTERPOL

    INTERPOL

    The TPC presented to INTERPOL in August 2025 and to the INTERPOL African Regional Conference in March 2026 — the source of the public case record.

  • EUROPOL

    EUROPOL

    Digital and electronic forensics training delivered with EU-ACT in Maputo and Rome — a standing platform for regional and global experts.

  • EU-ACT — EU Action against Drugs and Organised Crime

    Forensics training with EUROPOL; supported the June 2025 technical meeting with SARPCCO and EAPCCO.

  • US-INL — Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs

    Global Maritime Crime Programme alignment with UNODC.

  • DEA

    Drug Enforcement Administration

    International partner named in the TPC’s public record.

  • National Crime Agency

    International partner named in the TPC’s public record.

  • MAOC(N)

    MAOC(N) — Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre (Narcotics), Lisbon

    Reference cooperation; a precedent for fusion across borders.

Engagement record

Trainings, meetings and commitments

Public items only. Pending items are published once signed or announced.

  1. Commitment

    INTERPOL Regional Bureau Harare

    The Head of the Regional Bureau committed to facilitate the expansion of INTERPOL policing capabilities to the TPC and the region.

  2. Training

    Digital and electronic forensics training — Maputo and Rome

    Delivered with EU-ACT and EUROPOL; a standing platform for regional and global experts.

    Maputo · Rome

  3. Advancing

    Pending item

    Details pending confirmation
  4. Alignment

    UNODC and US-INL — Global Maritime Crime Programme

    Alignment with the Global Maritime Crime Programme.

  5. Capacity building

    TPC capacity-building cycles, Pretoria

    Hosted by SAPS with participation from South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, Lesotho, Eswatini and Malawi.

    Pretoria

  6. June 2025

    Technical meeting on West African syndicates — Tshwane Police Academy

    A TPC technical meeting with SARPCCO, EAPCCO, UNODC, EUROPOL and INTERPOL, supported by EU-ACT.

    Tshwane

  7. May 2026

    TPC · UNODC · INTERPOL engagement

  • A TPC capacity-building session in progress; faces are pixelatedDetails withheld
    Capacity building: a TPC session (faces pixelated)
  • Digital and electronic forensic training: an officer at the workbench; the face is pixelatedDetails withheld
    Digital and electronic forensic training

Expansion

A widening cell

Further states have formally applied to join the mechanism

Accession is considered by the Ministerial TROIKA. Names are published on approval.

Details pending confirmation

Next step

Where the network is heading

From a planning cell to a regional fusion centre.

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