NCJ Number
173214
Date Published
1997
Length
7 pages
Annotation
The Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs discusses the program that will be funded by the $230 million requested by the President for the International Narcotics Control account for fiscal year 1998.
Abstract
The program is based on recognition that criminal enterprise is as transnational as any other business and that innovative and nontraditional responses are needed. The program includes training by the Drug Enforcement Administration, Customs, the Coast Guard, and other agencies to improve capabilities of drug law enforcement agencies throughout the world. The training will also build relationships that enhance the ability of United States law enforcement agencies to carry out their own missions of enforcing United States law. The program focuses on foreign sources of drug supply and production as well as on drug trafficking. The program also continues the efforts introduced in fiscal year 1997 to assist foreign criminal justice institutions to conduct activities against forms of crime other than illegal drug production and trafficking. The National Drug Control Strategy also recognizes that the new transnational challenges of narcotics and crime require responses different from the traditional international diplomacy of war and peace. The world needs continued development of global policy recognition that the threats of transnational crime and illegal drugs has become as much an element of global foreign policy as war and peace. Thus, further international cooperation is essential, as is the sustaining of representatives abroad of United States domestic law enforcement agencies as integral elements of United States diplomatic missions.