Embassy Highlight
United States Partners with FSM and Australia to Open Transnational Crime Unit
The inauguration of a Transnational Crime Unit in Palikir on April 23 was the culmination of 15 months of U.S. Embassy efforts in coordination with U.S. Pacific Command's Joint Interagency Task Force West, the FSM National Government, and the Australian Federal Police. The Unit will bring together law enforcement officers from Australia, the FSM, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Palau for the purpose of monitoring and combating drug trafficking, terrorism, human trafficking, and other forms of international criminality affecting the region. The new TCU links to the Pacific Transnational Crime Coordination Center in Samoa through the Pacific Transnational Crime Network, which also includes units in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu.