National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC)

Mission

The mission of NDIC is to supply strategic drug-related understanding, article and computer exploitation support, and teaching aid to the drug command, public wellbeing, regulation enforcement, and understanding groups of the United States in alignment to decrease the harmful consequences of drug trafficking, drug misuse, and other drug-related lawless individual activity.

 

Work

NDIC carries national-level policymakers and the Intelligence Community by organising strategic analytical investigations on the trafficking of illicit drugs and on associated illicit undertakings that represent a risk to the nationwide security of the United States. In supplement, NDIC partners with the Department of Homeland Security Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement to supply critical understanding to recognise, pathway, and sever the nexus between drug trafficking and terrorism. NDIC furthermore makes strategic cash laundering accounts that assist policymakers and older regulation enforcement decisionmakers apply national-level anti-money laundering initiatives. NDIC accounts address the procedures wholesale-level traffickers use to launder drug proceeds. NDIC carries the National Money Laundering Threat Assessment and the National Money Laundering Strategy--interagency tasks that enhance the nation's proficiency to contradict worldwide cash laundering.

 

Responsibilities

NDIC investigations characteristic our proficiency to recognise, assemble, coordinate, and investigate large allowances of data and intelligence. To complete this, NDIC accesses financial and governmental databases and values accessible expertise to seek for and extract helpful information. NDIC furthermore values expertise evolved in-house to disclose patterns in the data comprised in notes grabbed by regulation enforcement bureaus throughout drug enquiries and later prosecutions(Strong, 55-60).

The groundwork of analytical investigations would not be likely without protecting the most rudimentary of raw components utilised in the analytical process--information. NDIC gets data from a varied array of undertakings that encompass exactly reviewing localized and state regulation enforcement agencies; getting data from other government regulation enforcement and understanding agencies; and extracting data from articles and electrical devices newspapers grabbed by regulation enforcement bureaus and prosecutors. NDIC furthermore values open-source data from report providers and public wellbeing agencies.

The Department of Justice National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) is the lead counterdrug bureau inside the U.S.intelligence community. Created in 1993, it is to blame for supplying nationwide authority as well as regulation enforcement agents, with a strategic image of the traffic in illicit drugs all through the United States. It boasts its purchaser groundwork several understanding products and services, encompassing data supplied by its Document Exploitation Division(Strong, 55-60).

 

NDIC goods and services

Principal amidst NDIC's understanding products are its risk evaluations, of which the most important is its yearly National Drug Threat Assessment. The last cited recognises primary drug risks, presents facts and numbers on alterations in utilisation patterns, investigates the accessibility of drugs by geographic market, and pathways patterns of circulation and trafficking. NDIC furthermore conceives drug risk evaluations by state, and matters data bulletins in answer to drug-related matters as those arise.

The Intelligence Division of NDIC encompasses six geographic flats, as well as four flats with focused tasks. These are the Drug Trends, Organized Crime and Violence, National Drug Threat Assessment, and National Interdiction Support units. Some data arrives to NDIC via area ...