drug trafficking Archives

Digital Shadows

Complex military operations have one point in common with large-scale drug trafficking enterprises: they rely on swift and secured communications. The massive development over the past 10 years of ...

Drugs & Alcohol

The Transnational Phenomenon of Drug Trafficking

Drug trafficking is a highly complex, transnational, and constantly changing criminal practice, posing continuous and substantial challenges to public security forces. This is a phenomenon that direct...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: What Hath the Court Wrought?

The past year, 2024, has seen the U.S. Supreme Court issue several decisions of importance to police leaders—not just as police officers but as employers and government employees. And there is more ...

Drugs & Alcohol

Joining Forces

On September 30, 2007, ministers from France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom gathered in Lisbon, Portugal, not only to acknowledge the threat posed by bulk mo...

Global Policing

The New Transnational and Technological Mafias

Contemporary mafias in all their manifestations are now a transnational phenomenon. It is impossible to isolate mafia criminal activities in a single specific territory. To understand the new organize...

Drugs & Alcohol

International Narcotics Control: A Program of Cooperation

The only viable response to drug abuse problems is now, and always will be, international in scope....

Drugs & Alcohol

confiscated packages of cocaine on tables

Drug Trafficking Murderers

In late 2001 the homicide rate in Saint Louis rose at an alarming rate. Police determined that the rate increase was not result of a surge in the number of crimes of passion or even acts of random vio...