UNDER COVER NARCOTICS POLICE OFFICER

Under Cover Narcotics Police Officer

Under-Cover Narcotics Police Officer

Introduction

In the United States, but also in most European and other like-minded countries, government expenditures are largely directed toward the enforcement of drug laws or supply-side policies, totaling about three-fourths of total expenditures. This occurs at the expense of demand-side policies, which include education, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation .

The increasing amount of public resources devoted to repressive drug policies does not succeed in stemming the increase in drug production and consumption. Admittedly, coca crops dropped in Colombia in 2002, but overall in the Latin America region production remained stable, and was even higher than that in 1985. In terms of heroin, 2001 is remembered by the near total eradication of the poppy in Afghanistan. This success, the only tangible one, is only one effect of the Taliban dictatorship. With the fall of the regime, the production of poppy found its highest level (more than 3000 tons) totaling twice as much as in 1990. Treatment demand for cannabis-related disorders has also increased since the late-1990s. At the same time, there has been strong growth in the trade of amphetamines, ecstasy and their derivatives, with an explosion of use in poor countries .

The literature on the drug market has studied the illicit drug problem with a positive approach that has attempted to explain the failure of the war on drugs(Nadelmann, 1993).

Police managers would have a less stressful job if their subordinates never worked undercover. However, many modern criminal activities are only vulnerable to this investigative technique. These include crimes of narcotics, firearms and terrorism. Relatively unused before the 1960s, the undercover investigative technique is widely used today with excellent results.

Undercover operations can gather intelligence that would otherwise go unknown. Your objective may be to find out what kinds of criminal activity are taking place in your jurisdiction, to plan the use of resources or to try to keep a jump ahead of criminal patterns. Most often, of course, undercover operations are used to gather evidence on specific crimes, to thwart criminals who may be planning a crime and to facilitate the making of arrests and seizures.

The vast majority of police undercover investigations in the United States today involve criminal narcotics activity.

Discussion

There are four main narcotics operations in the United states: drug production; the consumption and abuse of drugs; drug trafficking; and money laundering. These have numerous effects, including under cover narcotics police, corruption, crime, and an adverse impact on tourism, an economic mainstay of United States. These operations and effects have implications for several aspects of political, socio-economic, and security conduct in the region, including the area of governance. This article examines some of the connections involving under cover narcotics police, corruption and governance. There are direct linkages among these three aspects of the narcotics phenomenon: because of its illegality, under cover narcotics police necessitates corruption, and they both undermine good governance.

But under cover narcotics police is not the only reason corruption ...