WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) – The United States (US) Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says it has signed a landmark Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) enabling a Biometric Data Sharing Partnership with the Caribbean Community (Caricom) Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS).

DHS said on Friday that the MOC was signed in Washington by Rob Law, Under Secretary of Strategy, Policy, & Plans for DHS, and Lieutenant Colonel Michael Jones, executive director for Caricom Impacs.

The Ambassador of St Kitts and Nevis hosted the signing ceremony with attendees from Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, DHS said.