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Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice

No. 92: Torres Strait: policing the open border

John McFarlane
ISBN 0 642 24076 0 ; ISSN 0817-8542
July 1998

Abstract

In recent years there has been much discussion about trafficking in drugs and guns across the Torres Strait. This paper provides an overview of a seminar entitled Torres Strait : policing the open border. McFarlane includes some of the practical issues raised in discussion at the seminar, such as: the Torres Strait Treaty; the exercise of jurisdiction in the region; maritime activities; the security of Papua New Guinea; community policing; maintaining border control; and cross border cooperation.

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