Jamaica PM: Police unit reorganized after Cuba complaints that Jamaica lax in drug war

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This topic correspond to the post that can be found at http://www.streetgangs.com/news/121610_ ... _war:DAVID McFADDEN (Associated Press) | December 16, 2010

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Prime Minister Bruce Golding said Thursday his government shook up an anti-drug police unit after Cuba complained that the force had been uncooperative in preventing Jamaican drug smugglers using speedboats and small planes to move narcotics.

Golding's announcement followed the publication of a leaked U.S. diplomatic memo that portrayed Jamaican anti-drug officers as being so unresponsive that more than a dozen Cuban officials privately vented their frustrations to a U.S. drug enforcer in 2009.

The August 2009 communique released by WikiLeaks said Cuban officials described officials in the neighboring Caribbean country as ignoring efforts to stop traffickers who use Cuban waters and airspace to transport narcotics destined for the U.S. It was apparently written by America's chief diplomat to Cuba.

Golding said Thursday that Cuban Interior Ministry officials had voiced the same concerns directly to his government last year, and as a result, the head of a counter-drug police unit was replaced and the law enforcement agency was reshuffled. The identity of the unit commander was withheld.

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