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Viewing cable 07DAKAR649, SENEGAL: NARCOTICS SEIZURES AND OTHER CRIME DATA FOR 2006

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07DAKAR649 2007-03-21 11:08 2011-08-24 16:30 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Dakar 
VZCZCXRO1109
PP RUEHMA RUEHPA
DE RUEHDK #0649 0801108
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 211108Z MAR 07
FM AMEMBASSY DAKAR
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 7904
INFO RUEHZK/ECOWAS COLLECTIVE
RUEHTO/AMEMBASSY MAPUTO 0444
RUEHSA/AMEMBASSY PRETORIA 2028
RUEHJO/AMCONSUL JOHANNESBURG 0098
 
UNCLAS DAKAR 000649 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR INL/AAE, AF/RSA AND AF/W 
LAGOS FOR DEA 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: SNAR ASEC KCRM SG
SUBJECT: SENEGAL: NARCOTICS SEIZURES AND OTHER CRIME DATA FOR 2006 
AND EARLY 2007 
 
1.  On March 16, Leopold Diouf, the Director General for National 
Security in the Ministry of Interior and Local Government, released 
crime statistics for 2006.  He noted that Senegalese police seized 
29 kilograms of cocaine; 8,396 tons of marijuana, and 129,232 
capsules of various psychotropic drugs.  Diouf claimed that the 
police made 980 drug-related arrests. 
 
2.  Other arrests included 53 alleged murderers, 500 armed robbers, 
73 burglars, and four car thieves.  Diouf said that police responded 
to 55,114 calls in 2006 -- compared to 47,452 in 2005. 
 
3.  On March 17 or 18, 2007, police arrested three Mozambicans 
attempting to smuggle four kilograms of cocaine from Cape Verde to 
Mozambique via the Delta flight from Dakar to Johannesburg.  The 
three were identified as Mercia Mugnumbe, born in 1977; Humberto 
Munguambe, born in 1979; and Jose Lavio Carlos, born in 1982. 
 
JACKSON