Caribbean Basin Security Initiative: St. Kitts and Nevis

St. Kitts and Nevis benefits directly from CBSI programs, including:

• Training, technical assistance, and equipment to improve counternarcotics efforts and maritime interdiction capability; including interceptor boats as well as logistical and maintenance support training;
• Training, advisory support, and equipment for law enforcement agencies, often in coordination with the Regional Security System (RSS) and U.S. interagency partners;
• Mentoring and training to build civil asset forfeiture investigative and litigative capacity;
• Mentoring, training, and advisory support to justice sector institutions to implement modern model criminal legislation and procedures to incorporate regional and common law best practices designed to improve the efficiency of the criminal justice system;
• Providing professional development, equipment, and technical training to St. Kitts and Nevis’ security forces;
• Increasing educational opportunities for at-risk youth through strengthening second-chance education programs;
• Strengthening the juvenile justice system by supporting reform of the legal framework, building capacity within the justice sector, promoting the use of diversion and alternative sentencing options, and modernizing detention processes to create a focus on rehabilitation of youth in conflict with the law;
• Improving crime and violence policy-making and programming through the use of quality, comparable, and reliable national citizen security information;
• Training and equipment for corrections management to include identifying and mitigating security threat groups, contraband detection, and non-lethal emergency response techniques, as well as sentence management hardware and software.
• Mentoring, training and advising on maritime maintenance from the Technical Assistance Field Team to improve the operational readiness of their patrol boat fleet, to include equipment and software to ensure maintenance issues are being tracked.
• Improved maritime domain awareness through the participation in the Cooperative Situational Information Integration Initiative that provides regional air and maritime tracks for operations.
• Ongoing training and equipment for the maritime service to ensure U.S. provided vessels are maintained.