The General had heard of the Mole from his travels and was informed it could be of benefit. Again the enquiry has come to the company. There was no active marketing.
REEST and Maltese references were provided prior to the trials trip in Curacao and were followed up.
A set of set of trials were organised by GTL and the coastguard to test the unit for efficiency and to its limits in a naval operational sense.
The trials were successful and a report written. One unit was purchased, in July 2000 to trial over a few months to see how it performed and to make further sea and air tests. This report was used to confirm distances at sea and in the air for future clients. The specification was not made up by Global Technical Ltd. They used the NACG results.
During this time the progress was good, seizures of narcotics were made and they ordered 3 more in May 2001.
A second combined report was written and resulted in 2 more devices being purchased in 2002.
Training was provided and also a trainers course where they trained their own naval personnel.
The NACG is not an amateur organisation, they are not idiots. The live work performed over 18 months proved that the device was good at screening shipping for narcotics.
At the trial the prosecution first made out that the report was a forgery, yet when asked where the original one is, nobody could provide it. Rob Wesdorp gave evidence and was confused only over timings of the report and purchases but invoices were produced by the defence to prove when the purchases took place and Mr Wesdorp was wrong. At the end of the trial it was confirmed that the report found with Global Technical was in fact an original and had not been forged.
Mr Wesdorp was reluctant to state his involvement in the training of personnel with the Mole but was shown a video where the unit was being trained seriously on the use of the Mole and despite denying he was there was shown clearly to be helping with the training.
A video is attached and he is the gentleman in white.
SEE THE VIDEO AT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMH-jlPfiR4
Asked whether he considered the Mole to work he replied YES, for a good operator about 80% and lower for a less able operator.
He also stated that the NETHERLANDS ANTILLES COASTGUARD were still operating the device to this day for screening vessels at sea.
HE SAID IT WORKED, HE SAID IT WAS STILL BEING USED. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY STRANGE FRAUD WHERE THE USERS ARE VERY HAPPY WITH THE DEVICE AND USED IT 24 HOURS A DAY. HE WAS A PROSECUTION WITNESS
The Mole/GT200 was used for 2 years before the last purchase was made. Surely this is time enough to know that is cannot work. Everytime an order was placed Global Technical made the training for the coastguard and confirmed the 5 year warranty. The dutch had plenty of time to decide that the device did not work.
If it did not work why still use it 12 years later!! Why not take action against Global Technical? Why promote it to other navies? IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE DEVICE REALLY WORKED!!
The NACG also recommended it to other Caribbean countries as well as the US coastguard and South American navies as part of the East Caribbean task force.
Here is the proof:
