Peru: ICITAP Strengthens Counterterrorism Capacity with Advanced Training for Criminal-Justice Experts

From March 2-6, ICITAP conducted the second module of its five-part Counterterrorism Investigations and Hybrid Actors training program in Lima, Peru, designed to enhance partner-nation capabilities to identify, monitor, arrest, and prosecute proxy terrorists and cells. The program builds on Module One, previously delivered in November 2025 in Peru and February 2026 in Argentina, covering global terrorist operations, radical ideologies, the investigative cycle, and basic investigative techniques for investigators, analysts, prosecutors, and judges from Peru, Argentina, and Paraguay. Module Two emphasized medium and advanced investigative techniques, interagency and international cooperation, and hands-on practical exercises including surveillance planning, luggage search and seizure, and operational scenarios. The training employed case histories, interactive exercises, and group discussions to reinforce intelligence collection, analysis, and dissemination, illustrating the critical role of intelligence in counterterrorism operations. Partners joined portions of the training, delivering sessions on electronic surveillance, telephone intercepts, international intelligence sharing, cryptocurrency investigation principles, and prosecutorial best practices. Participants from the Peruvian Financial Crimes Analytical Unit discussed emerging terrorist financing threats, including those linked to illegal mining, lumber, and wildlife trafficking in remote areas, and shared methodologies for countering such financial networks. ICITAP’s Countering Proxy Networks program, conducted in close coordination with U.S. Embassy Lima and the Legat Office, strengthens partner nations’ ability to disrupt proxy networks, enhancing regional stability, safeguarding U.S. citizens and interests abroad, and supporting broader U.S. national security objectives by preventing illicit activity that could fund terrorism. These efforts are implemented with support from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Counterterrorism (CT).