Pacific Islands need stronger border against drugs traffickers

Pacific border security needs to be strengthened against criminal networks who use the Pacific as a conduit for the transhipment of hard drugs into the markets of New Zealand and Australia. This was a key challenge that Cook Islands Prime Minister, Mark Brown, urged Pacific heads of Customs to address, at the 26th Annual Oceania Customs Organisation (OCO) Conference, on 29 July, in Rarotonga.