

We also partner with regional law enforcement agencies, such as New Zealand Police, Australian Federal Police, and Australian Customs Service, who coordinate complementary capabilities in the region. Embassies and their respective country teams. and foreign law enforcement agencies through regional U.S.

Our strategy is built on the premise of interagency cooperation. and foreign partner law enforcement agencies, we are able to effectively augment and enhance their ability to disrupt and dismantle transnational criminal enterprise networks. These efforts lead to disrupting and dismantling criminal enterprises. law enforcement strategy to combat these criminal networks concentrates on long-term criminal enterprise investigations in order to prosecute organizations' leadership and seize criminally gained assets. JIATF West works closely with senior law enforcement leadership partners across the region to increase support to major law enforcement operations.Īsia-Pacific criminal enterprise activities, including drug-trafficking, are organized on a business model of networked criminal service providers. Since arriving in Hawaii in 2004, JIATF West has developed a strategy with supporting activities to face the particular challenges of the Asia-Pacific region, and to meet the evolving needs of our law enforcement partners. Our Approach to Combating Transnational Crime Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.International Narcotics Control Strategy Reports.National Drug Intelligence Center Releases National Drug Threat Assessment.White House Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime.White House/Office of National Drug Control Policy Links JIATF West E-Newsletter Previous Editions.We bring military and law enforcement capabilities together to combat drug-related transnational crime in the Asia-Pacific Region. Organizations that threaten the U.S., its territories, and its interests are denied the ability to traffic illicit drugs and precursor chemicals used to produce illicit drugs in the USPACOM AOR the environment is less permissive for their activities and regional partnerships and stability are enhanced. The Indo-Asia-Pacific Region is stable and prosperous, and characterized by a rules based international order that minimizes the impacts from transnational organized crime. and International Agencies - known for our professionalism, ethics, and exceptionalism in everything we do. We are a trusted and valued partner for both U.S. Pacific Command to both defend the Homeland and stabilize the theater by hardening the environment against the growth of transnational crime and disrupting transnational criminal organizations that threaten U.S. Joint Interagency Task Force West executes Department of Defense counterdrug activities on behalf of Commander, U.S. and foreign law enforcement agency personnel. The JIATF West team is a composite of approximately 166 active duty, reserve, DOD civilian, contractor, and U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM) Executive Agent for Department of Defense (DoD) support to law enforcement for counterdrug and drug-related activities.

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