Overview

• Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau announced 13 additional investigators for OFAST in Guadeloupe in the coming months.
• A new ballistic analysis laboratory will open locally to cut eight to ten months from firearm investigations previously sent to Écully.
• Two mobile gendarmerie squadrons will be installed alongside two nautical brigades in Gourbeyre and Pointe-à-Pitre without withdrawing the Republican Guard platoon.
• Technical surveillance will expand with two coastal radars covering the Dominica and Les Saintes channels and a drone for shoreline monitoring.
• Authorities reported a 55 kg cocaine seizure via a mobile container scanner and maintained 100% airport controls, while the Secretariat General of the Sea prepares an audit of the Guadeloupe port, with a similar mission for Martinique.