Program description | Training statistics | Budget

Program description:

The INC Narcotics Law Enforcement Program funds training carried out by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA, within the Justice Department), U.S. Customs Service (within the Treasury Department), and U.S. Coast Guard (within the Transportation Department -- and the Defense Department when the U.S. is at war).

INC-funded law enforcement training seeks to improve counternarcotics capabilities in recipient countries and to increase contact between U.S. and recipient-country personnel. According to the program's 1999 Congressional Presentation, courses are generally tailored to "senior-level management and policy-level officials, while programs offered overseas are normally for operational personnel."¹ Most recipient-country agencies are civilian; very few military personnel are trained through this program.

Only countries considered to be "high priority for U.S. anti-narcotics interests" will receive training through the narcotics law enforcement program. Through diplomatic channels, INL "will coordinate with other providers of training, and urge them to shoulder greater responsibility in providing training which serves their particular strategic interests."²

Budget:

(Thousands of U.S. dollars)

Sources

¹ United States, Department of State, Office of Resources, Plans and Policy, Congressional Presentation for Foreign Operations, Fiscal Year 1999 (Washington: March 1998): 1108.

² United States, Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Fiscal Year 1999 Budget Congressional Presentation (Washington: Department of State: March 1998): 108.

³ United States, Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Fiscal Year 1998 Budget Congressional Presentation (Washington: Department of State: March 1997): 105.

⁴ Department of State, Fiscal Year 1999 Budget Congressional Presentation 108.

⁵ United States, Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Fiscal Year 2000 Budget Congressional Presentation (Washington: Department of State: March 1999): 94.

⁶ United States, Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Fiscal Year 2001 Budget Congressional Presentation (Washington: Department of State: March 2000): 110.

⁷United States, Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Fiscal Year 2002 Budget Congressional Justification (Washington: Department of State: April 2001) <http://www.state.gov/g/inl/rls/rpt/cbj/fy2002/index.cfm?docid=3699>.

⁸United States, Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Fiscal Year 2003 Budget Congressional Justification (Washington: Department of State: April 2002) <http://www.state.gov/g/inl/rls/rpt/cbj/fy2003/>.

⁹United States, Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Fiscal Year 2004 Budget Congressional Justification (Washington: Department of State: June 2003) <http://www.state.gov/g/inl/rls/rpt/cbj/fy2004/>.