Joint Interagency Counter Trafficking Center
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US European Command's Joint Interagency Counter Trafficking Center |
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 Emblem of the JICTC |
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| Lineup | 2011 |
| Country | United States of America |
| Armed forces | United States Armed Forces |
| Armed forces | (cross-armed forces group command) |
| Strength | <40 |
| Insinuation | United States Central Command |
| Patch barracks | Stuttgart, Germany
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| Origin of the soldiers | FBI, Homeland Security, United States Department of Defense, State Department, Treasury Department, Department of Energy, United States Customs and Border Protection, Drug Enforcement Administration |
| Web presence | www.EUCOM.mil |
| Director, US European Command's Joint Interagency Counter Trafficking Center | |
| Current commander |
Brigadier General Greg A. Haase, USA |
The US European Command's Joint Interagency Counter Trafficking Center (JICTC for short) is a department of the United States Central Command founded in 2011 . The JICTC was unofficially named at the end of 2010, but the US government did not officially inform the German federal government until November 2012.
tasks
The JICTC is to counter transnational threats in cooperation with international partners in the area of responsibility within the United States European Command (EUCOM). She wants to dedicate herself mainly to the fight against drug, arms and human trafficking.
The organization claims to be a mixture of police and military without lethal weapons. Operations began in 2012 in Stuttgart , on the premises of EUCOM, with around 40 employees from various US authorities and is under the direction of Brig. Gen. Mark D. Scraba. The federal government grants the JICTC a great deal of freedom; agents from the FBI and the Ministry of Internal Security work at the agency. In this way, the USA created a gray area within Germany between military hazard defense, terrorism and the fight against crime. The headquarters of the US special forces Special Operations Command Europe is also housed there.
construction
In addition to the FBI and Homeland Security , the workforce consists of the following authorities:
- United States Department of Defense
- United States Department of State
- United States Treasury Department
- United States Department of Energy
- American border guards, immigration and Customs Enforcement ( United States Customs and Border Protection )
- American Drug Enforcement Administration ( Drug Enforcement Administration )
Attitude of the federal government
The strict separation that prevails in Germany between the fight against crime and defense tasks - the military must not be used in Germany for police measures - does not apply here to the JICTC, on the contrary, there this cooperation is part of the principle. Following a request from MPs Paul Schäfer and Wolfgang Gehrke , both Die Linke , the Federal Government commented on this as follows:
“It should first be noted that the US government does not strictly distinguish between defense and police security in its approach, but rather uses an expanded concept of security. It is based on the assumption that international drug trafficking as well as arms and people smuggling are used for terrorist purposes. "
The party also wanted to know to what extent the federal government supports the JICTC. The federal government replied:
“However, neither support services were provided nor were any planned. In the future, the federal government wants to exchange information with the US government via the JICTC "on a case-by-case basis."
Web links
- www.bundestag.de Anti- drug and terrorism activities of the US armed forces in Germany (PDF)
- New US secret service network in Germany - government clueless Neues Deutschland-0nline, issue of December 20, 2012.
- US military as bogus civilians on German territory Sector-O, issue of January 15, 2013.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://archive.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=116245
- ↑ http://www.nationalguard.mil/portals/31/Features/ngbgomo/bio/2/2546.html
- ↑ JICTC - Joint Interagency Counter-Trafficking Center ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c FBI staff in Germany. Archived from the original on June 14, 2013 ; Retrieved June 14, 2013 .
- ↑ a b c d USA create military-police authority in Germany on Quicknews.de. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
- ^ "It's a combination of military and police." NBC News www.nbcnews.com , From Cold Warriors to targeting trafficking: US military shifts focus in Europe , July 17, 2012. Accessed May 2, 2014.
- ↑ Drug and counter-terrorism activities of the US armed forces in Germany. P. 10 , archived from the original on June 14, 2013 ; Retrieved June 14, 2013 .
