Facilitating Trade:
Improving Customs Risk Management Systems
In the OIC Member States
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 Management of informants and other sources of information;
 Dissemination of intelligence.
At the intelligence office, not many resources dedicated to risk management are available. Eight
officers are working on the intelligence; three of them are dedicated to working with the
Decision Support Office and Risk Management Unit. Six officers are managing the risk profiles in
the TAME system, fully supported by the IT Department.
Among the responsibilities of the Intelligence Unit is to coordinate and communicate with the
national and international agencies. As mentioned before, the Intelligence Unit is also part of the
Drugs Unit together with the Police and Gendarmerie. They also manage the National
Information and Documentation System (FNID), and for the time being, the information from
the tax system is used on an ad-hoc basis, but the data exchange platformwhich is in a pilot stage
should enable full behavioral analysis.
Intelligence Unit has access to WCO CEN; the head of the Unit is appointed as head of the West
Africa RILO and takes care of West Africa RILO coordination.
The operational departments are responsible for implementing the results of the risk analysis
and, above all, for documenting the results of the controls to redirect
As stated above, the offices that are connected to the CDPS are transmitting the inspection
results electronically, even though litigation regulations require a written report the analyses.
5.2.6 Economic impact from CRM in Senegalese Customs
In reality, there are only a few measures for the potential economic impact of the risk
management. This is one of the areas where reporting and analysis should be done in future. In
particular, there is a need to improve the link between the risk management, the trade
facilitation, the trusted operators and, especially, the post-clearance controls. One of the current
projects in the SCC works to strengthen risk management - extension to post-clearance audit as
demanded by both the WCO and the Trade Facilitation Agreement.