JOC Staff | Jan 23, 2013 11:34AM EST
The U.K.’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office Minister Alistair Burt has specified how the department’s maritime security funds will be spent this financial year.
The funding for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, which works with the U.K. to deliver capacity building assistance, totals £2.25 million (about US$3.6 million).
It includes $1.1 million of additional funding to the UNODC’s Post Trial Transfer Programme to complete the construction of a new prison in Garowe, Somalia, to hold convicted pirates in facilities that meet international standards; $100,000 for a project to tackle corruption in the Somali penal system; and $240,000 to develop the Somali coast guard.
