Drug Enforcement Administration

The Drug Enforcement Administration or DEA is the federal service of police force American depend on the Département of the Justice of the United States charged with the application with the law on the Stupéfiant S and with the fight against their traffic within the framework with the Campagne with the United States against drug-addiction.

History

Since its foundation in July 1973, the DEA is present on the whole of the American continent, and more particularly in Colombia, Bolivia, with the Peru, the Panama and the Mexico.

This administration was founded following the fusion of three services which dealt with the fight against drugs, the Bureau off Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD), the Office off National Narcotics Intelligence (ONNI) and the Office off Drug Abuse Law Enforcement (ODALE).

Results

In 2005, the DEA seized 1,4 billion dollar S of capital related to the drug trafficking and 477 million dollars, in commercial value, of Drogue, but the White House estimates that the whole of the drug trafficking to the the United States amounts to 64 billion dollars per annum.

Organization

The DEA is directed by an administrator appointed by the President of the United States and approved by the Sénat of the United States.

The seat is located at Arlington (Virginia). It maintains its own academy lodged in a base the body of the navy to Quantico (Virginia) with that of FBI.

The DEA has 237 offices of investigation and 80 foreign agencies distributed in 58 countries.

Its budget and its manpower grow each year thus, during its creation, its budget was 60 million dollars in 1973 against of more than 2,4 billion dollars in 2006, it employs on this last date more 18 800 people of which more 5 300 special agents against 2 775 people of which 1 470 special agents in 1973.

It has a system of recording which allows the medical personnel, researchers and industrialists to have access to controlled products. This system allots a kind of number of code DEA to the authorized people which allows a follow-up of these controlled substances.

It laid out in 2001 of three large data banks; the NADDIS (Narcotic and Dangerous Drugs System), the DAWN (Drug Deceives Warning Network) and ARCOS (Automated Reports years Consumed Order Systems).

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