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DCI Crime and Narcotics Center

The Director of Central Intelligence Crime and Narcotics Center monitors, reviews, and delivers information about international trafficking in illegal drugs and international organized crime to our nation's leaders and law enforcement agencies.

Former Director of Central Intelligence William Webster created what became today's DCI Crime and Narcotics Center in April 1989. The center is staffed by people from the 13 agencies which make up the US Intelligence Community, including the CIA, and from law enforcement agencies.

The people who serve in the Crime and Narcotics Center can never say they have a slow day because the war on drugs and crime goes on around the clock and never takes a holiday. They have a big job, and many people look to them for help.

The Crime and Narcotics Center's staff's many jobs include:

• Estimating the amount of illegal drugs—coca, opium poppy, and marijuana—produced around the world. Their estimates about illegal drugs help our government leaders determine the level of the drug threat to our country and also how committed other countries are to the war on drugs.

• Assisting law enforcement agencies break up drug and organized crime groups

• Helping law enforcement agencies detect and capture illegal drug shipments

By working closely with CIA offices and other agencies on crime and drug issues, the people who work in the Crime and Narcotics Center play a key role in helping destroy many drug and organized crime organizations.

What the Crime and Narcotics Center staff does seems like a lot of work, and it is. Did you know that the men and women of the Crime and Narcotics Center are moms and dads, too? They work hard to protect you and their own children from the pain and sorrow and criminal activities that are often the result of using illegal drugs.

The DCI Crime and Narcotics Center invites you to look at some of its publications about drugs.

Coca Fact Paper: A Primer
Heroin Movement Worldwide
From Flowers to Heroin

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