📋 Tender Overview
More than an application, IDEAL 3.0 is conceived as a collaborative platform for analysis and interpretation of the risk of serious organized crime among Latin American countries, experts and analysts.
Knowing and assessing the threat of serious and organized transnational crime and carrying out a multidimensional, regional and joint approach between countries is key to combating it; and the use of technological tools facilitates identification and decision-making to coordinate actions in a practical and efficient way. That is why the European Union cooperation program to combat transnational organized crime, EL PACCTO 2.0, launched a few days ago in Quito, Ecuador, the country that holds the Protempore Presidency of CLASI, an update of the “Instrument for Documentation and Assessment of the Threat in Latin America” known by its acronym IDEAL, in its 3.0 version.
More than an application, IDEAL 3.0 is intended as a collaborative platform for analysis and interpretation of the risk of serious organized crime between Latin American countries, experts and analysts. This digital tool is promoted by the European Union (EU), as part of its commitment to promote joint international efforts to combat organized crime in the regions of Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). All of this will allow authorities to define and implement public policies to effectively combat and dismantle the most important organized criminal groups.
IDEAL is inspired by the European Police Office (Europol) system called “ Serious and Organized Crime Threat Assessment (SOCTA), the main system for analyzing the threat posed to the European Union by serious crime and organized crime activity.
The objective of IDEAL is none other than to promote a joint response by the countries that participate in its development – ??currently the same ones that make up the Latin American Committee on Internal Security (CLASI) – to the challenges posed by organized crime in Latin America and the Caribbean, based on data on criminal trends and illicit flows.
The work developed through IDEAL 3.0 will contribute to the adoption of criminal public policies and will support CLASI in defining the main criminal priorities, joint operational plans to address them and in regional and bi-regional dialogues, with the clear aspiration of making progress in establishing multidisciplinary and multi-actor Latin American and Euro-Latin American regional exercises, inspired by and connected to the EMPACT mechanism - European Multidisciplinary Platform Against Criminal Threats -, which is a European initiative that transforms the priorities identified by SOCTA into concrete actions.
The meeting was opened by Mónica Palencia, Minister of the Interior of Ecuador and pro tempore president of CLASI; General Víctor Zárate, Commander General of the National Police of Ecuador; and the Ambassador of the European Union in Ecuador, Jekaterina Dorodnova. The event was attended by representatives of seventeen Latin American countries that are members of CLASI and the Police Community of America - Ameripol.
IDEAL was created in 2020 with support from the first phase of EL PAcCTO, with Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico and Panama initially participating in the first assessment of the threat of transnational organized crime in Latin America. In the second assessment, carried out in 2023, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay participated. In this third version, the number of IDEAL 3.0 users is expected to increase to 17 countries.
