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Police Aid

The following U.S. programs may provide police aid to Latin America and the Caribbean:

 

Anti-Terrorism Assistance (ATA)
Weapons, equipment and training for prevention and management of terrorism

 
 

Counter-Terrorism Fellowship Program (CTFP) A Defense Department training program funding training and education in counter-terror skills

 
 

Drawdowns
Presidential authority to grant defense articles, training and services from the U.S. arsenal

 
 

Excess Defense Articles (EDA)
Transfers of used weapons and equipment from U.S. stocks

 
 

Foreign Military Financing (FMF)
Grants and loans for defense articles, training and services

 
 

International Criminal Investigations and Training Program (ICITAP)
Law-enforcement training provided by the Department of Justice

 
 

International Military Education and Training (IMET)
Funding for courses given both in the U.S. and in-country by U.S. personnel. Expanded IMET pays for training in non-combat subjects.

 
 

International Narcotics Control (INC)
Funding of equipment, training, eradication and other programs of the State Department’s Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL)

 
 

Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) and other Special Operations Forces (SOF) Training
Special Forces' deployments for joint training. This section also includes SOF counter-drug training

 
 

"Section 1004" and "Section 124" Counterdrug Assistance
Training, equipment upgrades and other services provided for counternarcotics, funded through the defense budget

 
 

"Section 1033" Counterdrug Assistance to Colombia (and Peru until 2002)
Assistance to fight drugs on rivers, funded through the defense budget

 
 

Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (Ex-School of the Americas) (Fort Benning, GA)
The U.S. Army's Spanish-language training school for Latin American militaries

 

 

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