ANTIDRUG OPERATIONS
National profile
The III Service coordinates anti-drug information exchange and investigations conducted by law enforcement agencies in Italy and abroad. In this framework, it ensures expertise at all stages of the investigations, providing law enforcement units and commands with technical-investigative, logistic-operational and financial support. The III Service constantly develops and analyzes relevant information, reporting to the investigative and judicial bodies possible investigative cross-overs.
In such cases, DCSA organizes info-operational meetings attended by members of different units/bureaus, in order to thoroughly analyze information and avoid time-wasting operational overlaps. Sometimes undercover techniques are used. The infiltration of qualified police officers has allowed us to reconstruct the criminal chain and strike the organization top levels.
ANTIDRUG OPERATIONS
International profile
The promotion of antidrug activities at international level is one of the core activities of the III Service. In fact, one of the most important aspects in the fight against transnational criminal organizations is the internationalization of investigations through the law enforcement attachés network abroad. The cooperation with law enforcement agencies of the countries affected by drug trafficking is a key factor for effective counteraction. In the field of international cooperation, the Italian law enforcement agencies avail themselves, through D.C.S.A., of the support of the main drug transit and producing countries among which: Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Dominican Republic, Mexico, U.S.A., Spain, The Netherlands, France, Belgium, Morocco, Iran, Turkey and others.
In the last few years, this has enhanced the investigative potential and led to large seizures of drugs and assets and to the arrest of high-level fugitives.
DCSA
Our Drugs Experts in the Word
The foreign cities hosting DCSA Law Enforcement Attachés
D.C.S.A. manages a network of 19 law enforcement attachés, posted to the main centres of illicit drug trafficking, production and transit abroad. Among their priorities: promoting the cooperation against drug trafficking and carrying out study, observation, consultancy, information activities. The attachés also act as a liaison with the competent foreign bodies in order to facilitate a quick solution to judicial and law enforcement issues.
The overseas attachés have been entrusted to carry out research and collect information useful to initiate and develop investigations as well as to trace drug consignments through special investigative techniques aimed at identifying the recipient and, therefore, the criminal organizations importing, transporting and distributing the drug shipments.
A liaison officer, with operational coordination tasks, is also posted at the Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre Narcotics MAOC-N in Lisbon.
At present, the law enforcement attachés bureaus are located in the Americas (Ottawa, Santo Domingo, Mexico City, Bogota, Caracas, Lima, Brasilia and Buenos Aires), in Africa (Rabat, Dakar and Accra), in Asia (Istanbul, Beijing, Tashkent and Tehran) and Europe (Madrid, Vienna, Barcelona and Skopje).