Training Course on Fraudulent Document Detection

The Secretariat of CICTE, in collaboration with the Government of Peru, delivered on July 20-24 a training course on the detection of fraudulent documents and imposters, as part of the CICTE Program on Document Security and Fraud Prevention. Experts from the Forensic Documents Laboratory (FDL) of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) provided the technical instruction. The primary objective of the workshop was to enhance the capacity of the participating officials and their respective countries to prevent and detect the use of altered or fraudulent travel and other identity documents.

Hosted in Lima, the course was attended by 32 participants:  7 from Ecuador and 25 from Peru.  Participants were drawn from migration, law enforcement, customs and related authorities responsible for border controls and the examination of travel and other identity documents.  This was a fifth in a series of training workshops tailored for the recipient countries.  Other courses are planned for 2009 and 2010. 

For more information, contact the manager assigned to the program