SERVICES
Mission
The II Service, “Studies, research and information“, carries out operational and intelligence research in the drug sector. In particular, it deals with “strategic analysis” of drug trafficking at national and international levels. It develops research and reports on the domestic situation, on local consumption, domestic routes and on the ethnic groups mostly involved in drug trafficking. At international level, analysis is focused on areas of production and origin, destination markets, concealment methods, drug entry borders and routes used by traffickers. Through the analysis of the commercial transactions reported to D.C.S.A., II Service keeps controls on the chemical precursors liable to be used in drug production.
Through the “National Early Warning System” coordinated by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers’ Department of Antidrug Policies, the II Service monitors the developments in new psychoactive substances (NPS), which represent a new threat, since they are not scheduled in the Tables of the Ministry of Health. At international level, it cooperates with the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) of the United Nations
Within the II Service, a library, collects and distributes information and publications on the drug phenomenon. It processes requests for bibliographic assistance made by universities and academic institutions.