Welcome
Welcome to the official site of SPICIN
South Pacific Islands Criminal Intelligence Network
The SPICIN Control Center is a round-the-clock operation always in place to receive and transmit communications and reports throughout the Pacific Rim and around the world. SPICIN allows members countries to have access to criminal information and alerts as they are produced and to disseminate crime data far beyond their areas of jurisdictions. The backbone of the system is the reporting procedure for the timely submission of information by member nations to SPICIN Control Center
WHAT'S NEW
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was established by law on January 5, 2009; composed of the following offices and information intelligence functions:
· Office of Vital Statistics (OVS)
· Territorial Emergency Management Coordinating Office (TEMCO)
· Territorial Office of Homeland Security (TOHS)
· Office of Territorial and International Criminal Itelligence and Drug Enforcement (OTICIDE)
· South Pacific Islands Criminal Intelligence Network (SPICIN)
· INTERPOL Pacific Sub-Bureau of the United States
Michael R. Sala is the first Director of the newly established Department of Homeland Security (DHS). With over 40 years of law enforcement and public safety experience in American Samoa and the US mainland; 20 of those years he served in American Samoa as Deputy Commissioner of Public Safety. His variety of assignments included patrol, traffic, training, crime prevention, vice and narcotics, intelligence, investigations, administration and senior management consultant. Sala served 15 years as Executive Director of the South Pacific Islands Criminal Intelligence Network (SPICIN), the intelligence arm of the South Pacific Chiefs of Police Conference (SPCPC) organization comprised of 21 countries in the Pacific, including Australia and New Zealand, until 2003 when SPICIN was reorganized as part of the regions’ information sharing and intelligence infrastructure administered by the American Samoa Government.
